re: Is my phone spying on me?

It’s called significant locations feature on iOS. You can disable it in your location and privacy settings.


Basically the phone starts to learn where you are going, what days you are going, what times of day you are going there.


There was a season in life where every morning I got in my car it was routing to chick fila.


The other day it predicted we were going to Publix( we were going to a different grocery store) but it was a good guess it was our normal time we go to Publix.



All that rambling to say. Your phone based on the time of day you got in your vehicle or the day of the week plus time predicted you were going to Costco and it was correct.


Impressive and scary at the same time. Sometimes it’s wrong but when you have the phone with you everyday all the time tracking your location and the richest company on earth writing algorithms to predict your behavior with all of those data points you feed it, it’s bound to be correct very often.