How Uber seems to know where you are – even with restricted location permissions

The report explains that Uber’s airport arrival notifications on iOS are triggered locally by Apple’s UNLocationNotificationTrigger geofencing feature rather than by the app accessing location in the background; while this respects the “While Using the App” permission setting, the author argues the practice is misleading when used for advertising and calls on Apple to limit location-triggered notifications to non-advertising, user-serving purposes.