- Apple release iOS update to calm location privacy fears Apple have released iOS 4.3.3, an update which it hopes will calm privacy fears following recent revelations by two security researchers that Apple iOS devices, including the iPhone and iPad with 3G, continuously store users’ location data to a “secret” file on their phone. While this may not be entirely true, Apple do cache or store Wi-Fi hotspot and cell tower location data that could potentially be used to trace where users have been.