How to use Check In on iOS 17: Stay safe, track your friends, get peace of mind

[iMore.com]

How to use Check In on iOS 17 to tell your friends when you've arrived safely at your destination.

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[Wotchered]

The trap grows closer…

 

[Annie_M]

I think this is a good feature that offers peace of mind.

 

[Wotchered]

Well I think this is a terrible feature. Just imagine how much easier this could make stalking and spying and other associated nastinesses . Look at the grief the Air Tag is still causing. How long before Google adds all this data to their sales list ? It won’t be long before you’ll be getting messages saying “ We see you are at … why don’t you take the opportunity to … “

 

[EdwinG]

Well I think this is a terrible feature. Just imagine how much easier this could make stalking and spying and other associated nastinesses . Look at the grief the Air Tag is still causing. How long before Google adds all this data to their sales list ? It won’t be long before you’ll be getting messages saying “ We see you are at … why don’t you take the opportunity to … “

You know you need to initiate the feature, as the person travelling?

By extension, it means that you know that your location is getting shared. It’s not something a third-party will get automatically (through this feature directly).

 

[Wotchered]

But indirectly ? when everyone and his dog is trying to find everything out about you ? At the best of it for commercial purposes. If you think that Apple’s semi partner in some endeavours “Google ,“ will not take advantage you are a far less suspicious person than I.