Is this possible on any modern day phone or tablet? Selfhosting as made me very privacy-consciouss and am concerned about my iphone.

    • NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      In the other reply, you said something about GPS.

      Well, location services aren’t really GPS anymore.

      The phone looks at all of it’s radio environment (cell and WiFi and whatnot) and from that it calculates it’s location. GPS may help a little, too, but it’s not important.

      It needs Apple’s own databases to do that: collections of all antennas in the world, and their known locations.