I recently acquired an iPhone XS (pronounced "Ten S" but the deliciously appropriate pronunciation "excess" hasn't escaped me). I've turned off most notifications (texts, e-mails, and calendar items the obvious exceptions) and all my apps are allowed to record my location only when using them, if they're allowed to do so at all (most aren't).
That said, the friggin' thing is doing two things that simultaneously piss me off, scare me, and (admittedly) help me.
1. When I get in the truck, a Maps notification pops up and tells me how long it's going to take to get to the destination to which it believes I'm headed (with frightening accuracy, I might add). It started at work when it began telling me how long it would take to get home and which freeway I should take. Yesterday, for the first time, I got in the truck with my daughter in the morning and it told me how long it would take to get to her school (her school location is not saved anywhere in my contacts, which is how I understood such predictions are made). Last night, I got into the truck at a location I'm not usually at, but the phone popped up and told me how long it would take me to get home and the best route. (Even stranger, the notifications only pop up when I actually get in the truck - not when I'm merely near my truck.) WTF? How do I turn this off?
2. I have the Starbucks app loaded and I've saved my "favorite" locations therein. Every time I drive past one of those locations, a notification pops up alerting me to my proximity thereto. WTF? How do I turn this off?
As to both issues, I've swiped left on these notifications and hit "Manage" in an attempt to tamp the monster down, but it keeps stalking me. Now I'm at a loss.
Gracias.
War is god
That said, the friggin' thing is doing two things that simultaneously piss me off, scare me, and (admittedly) help me.
1. When I get in the truck, a Maps notification pops up and tells me how long it's going to take to get to the destination to which it believes I'm headed (with frightening accuracy, I might add). It started at work when it began telling me how long it would take to get home and which freeway I should take. Yesterday, for the first time, I got in the truck with my daughter in the morning and it told me how long it would take to get to her school (her school location is not saved anywhere in my contacts, which is how I understood such predictions are made). Last night, I got into the truck at a location I'm not usually at, but the phone popped up and told me how long it would take me to get home and the best route. (Even stranger, the notifications only pop up when I actually get in the truck - not when I'm merely near my truck.) WTF? How do I turn this off?
2. I have the Starbucks app loaded and I've saved my "favorite" locations therein. Every time I drive past one of those locations, a notification pops up alerting me to my proximity thereto. WTF? How do I turn this off?
As to both issues, I've swiped left on these notifications and hit "Manage" in an attempt to tamp the monster down, but it keeps stalking me. Now I'm at a loss.
Gracias.
War is god
