{"id":37958,"date":"2022-12-23T14:31:04","date_gmt":"2022-12-23T19:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=37958"},"modified":"2022-12-23T15:21:30","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T20:21:30","slug":"activating-automatic-backtrack-in-watchos-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/23\/activating-automatic-backtrack-in-watchos-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Activating Automatic Backtrack in watchOS 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.david-smith.org\/blog\/2022\/12\/22\/automatic-backtrack\/\">David Smith<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.david-smith.org\/blog\/2022\/12\/22\/automatic-backtrack\/\">\n<p>The trick was knowing that you have to press that bottom right button in order to discover if an automatic route is being tracked.<\/p>\n<p>I imagine this ambiguity is coming from Apple being very circumspect about protecting user privacy. I wouldn&rsquo;t be surprised if the system for automatically and surreptitiously recording the user&rsquo;s locations is entirely walled off from the rest of the Compass app to make sure this very sensitive data can&rsquo;t inadvertently be leaked without the user&rsquo;s explicit approval. Hence the need to specifically request and approve it every time you want to see it. That&rsquo;s just a guess but it seems a reasonable one.<\/p>\n<p>We could quibble about the discoverability of this interface design but I suspect it is motivated by a user privacy.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/07\/apple-watch-ultra\/\">Apple Watch Ultra<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Smith: The trick was knowing that you have to press that bottom right button in order to discover if an automatic route is being tracked. I imagine this ambiguity is coming from Apple being very circumspect about protecting user privacy. I wouldn&rsquo;t be surprised if the system for automatically and surreptitiously recording the user&rsquo;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2022-12-23T19:31:12Z","apple_news_api_id":"80b5cf51-f505-4391-9b3e-d6aa7c6d55e2","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2022-12-23T20:21:32Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQ==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AgLXPUfUFQ5GbPtaqfG1V4g","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"middle","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2268,77,355,1212,2219],"class_list":["post-37958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple-watch-ultra","tag-design","tag-privacy","tag-watchos","tag-watchos-9"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37958"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37971,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37958\/revisions\/37971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}