What’s New with Location and Bluetooth APIs on iOS 13

With the recently announced iOS 13, we see that Apple’s approach to location privacy is getting more and more serious. This new update will include recurring notifications for users to see whether the app uses their location in the background or not, allowing them to adjust the setting regularly.

App owners will have to do more than to let users know why they are using their location. iOS 13 will show how often applications request location APIs with the map and description for how they use your location in the background.

Not much has changed on the Bluetooth side, only the devices that access the Bluetooth API need to write to info.plist why they are using Bluetooth. If this is not written, then the apps will crash.

On the location side, few things have changed but the changes made location permissions definitely a bit more complicated than before, especially for app owners.

As we already know, iOS asks users for the app to obtain location permissions. The application currently (iOS 12) can grant either “when in use” or “always”. With iOS 13 though, this is changing and a new option is being added.