Apple will apparently no longer track your device’s location by its SSID or BSSID signal.
The note comes on the heels of Apple’s WWDC 2019 developer session 713 titled, “Advances in Networking” revealed that iOS 13 will stop location tracking using your device’s SSID/BSSID using the CNCopyCurrentNetworkInfo API.
Developers have reported receiving the following email from Apple regarding the situation:
“Starting with iOS 13, the CNCopyCurrentNetworkInfo API will no longer return valid Wi-Fi SSID and BSSID information. Instead, the information returned by default will be:
SSID: “Wi-Fi” or “WLAN” (“WLAN” will be returned for the China SKU) BSSID: “00:00:00:00:00:00”
It’s technical, but it definitely gets to the point that location tracking via this methods will no longer be kosher.
Stay tuned for additional details as they become available.
Via The Mac Observer and developer.apple.com