The blog post appears to be a way to get out in front of software changes made by Apple and Google that could unsettle Facebook users given the company's poor reputation for privacy.
"Your Android or iOS location settings allow you to control when you share your device's precise location with apps like Facebook," a Facebook engineering director wrote in a blog post. "That's why we're letting you know that Android and iOS have released new versions of their operating systems, which include updates to how you can view and manage your location."
That means that some Facebook users may soon be confronted with an Apple-created pop-up telling them that Facebook has used their location in the background some number of times over the past few days, and including a map marking where Facebook asked the phone for its coordinates. Apple typically releases new versions of iOS in the week or two after it releases new iPhones. Apple is holding a press event at its campus on Tuesday where new phones are expected to be announced."Sharing your location with a third-party app can really enable some useful experiences, but we don't expect to have that privilege used to track us," Craig Federighi, Apple's senior vice president of software engineering.
The Facebook blog post also addressed Android, which also has new location features in its latest version, 10.
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