Experiment #3 - Nearby Items

I have two items I’d like to comment on regarding this feature. They’re the first two things that I always think about whenever an app wants my location. First one probably more important, but they’re both important:

1) What kind of battery drain will this app cause on my phone if I enable “always allow?” I often won’t allow it for smaller companies who build mobile apps, because they often get this wrong and add significant drain on my phone, in the background, enough to make them useless often. So…, if I were the product team working on this feature, I’d be sure to set battery drain goals for this feature and strive to improve on those goals and also just make sure it passes the “does it drain rapidly” smell test for sure...

2) This follows naturally from “always allow” location, and that’s: do you log my location in any way—other than of course knowing where my preset locations are for using passwords or other stored info from 1P? I’m fine with you knowing where I use passwords—though even that is quite sensitive—but I’d want to know a lot about your encryption and destruction of “moving around logs” of my GPS location. In fact, can you just have Apple’s Secure Enclave just notify you when I’m near a place, and you never see my movements, just when I’m near a place I’ve set?

I’d want to learn about both of these two items above, once it’s out of beta before taking the plunge and using it.

My $0.0199 worth!

Cheers
~ Brad