Why iPhone 11 Pro seems to share location against user setting

San Francisco: Dismissing reports that iPhone 11 Pro continuously collects and transmits its user’s location data even when the user has blocked it from doing so, Apple has said that the confusion arose because of its ultra-wideband technology.
In a blog and an accompanying video, security journalist Brian Krebs this week demonstrated a potential privacy leak in the new iPhone line that appeared to continue to collect GPS data for certain apps and system services despite manual disablement of individual Location Services in iPhone Settings.
Responding to the claim, Apple said that the location beaconing Krebs documented in a video was related to ultra-wideband technology that “provides spatial awareness allowing iPhone to understand its position relative to another ultra wideband enabled devices (i.e. all-new iPhone 11s, including the Pro and Pro Max).” Ultra-wideband is a radio technology that uses a very low energy level for short-range, high-bandwidth communications of a large portion of the radio spectrum without interfering with more conventional transmissions, krebsonsecurity.com reported on Thursday.
“So users can do things like share a file with someone using AirDrop simply by pointing at another user’s iPhone,” Apple was quoted as saying in the statement.
Krebs said he found the behavior of the device at odds with Apple’s own privacy policy and with its recent commercials stating that customers should be in full control over what they share via their phones and what their phones share about them.