Phones do not store the locations of their users, but a list of Wi - Fi hotspots and towers of cell in their region, the company said.
This list, downloaded from Apple, phone assistance discover its location without having to listen to the signals of the GPS satellites. That means navigation applications can present a location of the phone more quickly and more accurately, he said.
With regard to the data storage for up to the year, it is a bug, Apple said. It is not necessary to store data for more than seven days, and Apple said it would limit the size of the file with a software update in the coming weeks.
He said that he would stop also save the file from the phone to the computer of the user, a practice that has raised concerns. Computers are much more vulnerable to attempts to remote hacking than mobile phones.
A third planned correction is to stop the download of the file for phones, all of which have the "location Services" disabled, Apple said, and to encrypt the file on those where it is turned on.
Statement on Wednesday was first Apple overall response to the reports. The data file has been discovered by researchers and released last week and drew attention to the Congress.
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