Underpromise and overdeliver — always a good scheme . Apple say it would take a few weeks to issue an Io update to gear up a handful of germ related to the storage of location data , but it ’s take just seven days between that announcement and the show of Io 4.3.3 .
Io contains a stash of location information , picture above , that was also synchronize to Macs and microcomputer via iTunes .
As Apple promised in its location Q&A last calendar week , iOS 4.3.3 addresses three bugs related to the database of placement information on iOS devices . first off , it reduces the amount of the cached location information to a week ’s worth , rather than relying on a size terminus ad quem , as it previously did . Secondly , it no longer backs up the cache to your Mac or PC via iTunes upon syncing , so the info is n’t usable to anyone with access code to your reckoner . And finally , the cache is now delete from the twist when Location Services are disabled in iOS ’s configurations app . Apple has also announced program to encrypt the location information on iOS twist itself in the next major update to the operating organization , which presumptively come to to iOS 5 .
iOS contains a cache of location information, pictured above, that was also synced to Macs and PCs via iTunes.
The iOS 4.3.3 update apply to the iPhone 4 , iPhone 3GS , iPad , iPad 2 , third - generation iPod speck , and the fourth - generation iPod tinge . The odd men out , though , are the iPhone 3 G and the second - generation iPod touch , both of which were supported by the original release of iOS 4 — when the location database is believed to have been create — but have since been dropped from compatibility . The CDMA iPhone got a separate update today , in the variety of iOS 4.2.8 which fixes the same position bugs , but impart that gadget short of the other feature of Io 4.3 .
These quick , effective fixes should go a foresighted way to settling business over the uncovering of stash away location data that sparked an outcry last calendar month . The worries have even prompt a Congressional hearing on roving privateness , scheduled for May 10 , in which Apple chief executive officer Steve Jobs said the society will participate .
Updated at 11:55 a.m. PT to add a Federal Reserve note on the iOS 4.2.8 update for CDMA iPhones .
