Most iPhone owners have hopefully learned to manage app permissions by now, including allowing location access. But there’s another layer of location tracking that operates outside these controls. Your cellular carrier has been collecting your location data all along, and until now, there was nothing you could do about it.
Apple just changed this in iOS 26.3 with a new setting called “limit precise location.”
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Source: Malwarebytes Labs
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