iOS 18.4 includes a new location services privacy setting for your iPhone

The just-released iPhone software update has a bunch of headline features including Priority Notifications, new emoji, Sketch in Image Playgrounds and more, but iOS 18.4 also has some more under-the-radar changes. As spotted by Mysk, iOS 18.4 adds a new setting buried in Location Services called ‘Improve Location Accuracy’. For some users, including myself, it was on by default. Here’s what Apple says this toggle does … You can find this new setting by going to Settings -> Privacy & Security -> Location Services -> System Services and scrolling down to the ‘Product Improvement’ section. The ‘Improve Location Accuracy’ toggle joins the existing ‘iPhone Analytics’, ‘Routing & Traffic’, and ‘Improve Maps’. Apple’s documentation for this new setting reads: Your iPhone will periodically send the geo-tagged locations of nearby Wi-Fi hotspots and mobile phone masts (where supported by a device) in an anonymous and encrypted form to Apple, to be used for augmenting this crowd-sourced datab ... Read full article.