[OT] Excessive Wireless Traffic from iPhone running iOS5

jacques CLAVEL jacques.clavel at gmail.com
Fri Nov 4 17:02:18 EDT 2011


BigBrother is watching you! Your IPhone is sending to Apple the
localisation data recorded by your phone the previous days. This happens
only when you have WIFI access.

Jacques Clavel

2011/11/3 Pete <pete at mollysrevenge.com>

> A couple of weeks ago, I noticed an occasional  huge slowdown in internet
> access from home.  Whenever this occurred, it was obvious from the lights
> on my wireless router that a huge amount of wireless traffic was happening.
>
> In true old-fashioned trouble shooting mode, I tried to figure out what
> might have changed in any computer setups in my home.  The only thing that
> I could come up with was that my wife upgraded her iPhone to ios5 round
> about the time this started happening.
>
> From the circumstances, I believe this is happening when the iPhone is
> syncing wirelessly with iTunes on my wife's Mac laptop.  That only happens
> over WiFi and when the phone is charging, both of which are the case when
> this wireless traffic problem occurs.  I verified this by switching off
> WiFi on the iuPhone last time this happened and sure enough, the wireless
> traffic stopped.
>
> Have any of you iPhone users experienced anything similar to this?
>  Obviously there has to be WiFi traffic for the iPhone to sync, but there
> isn't that much data on my wife's iPhone so I'm not understanding the
> extreme wireless activity.
>
> Meantime my Android phone has been wireless syncing perfectly for
> months.....
>
> Pete
> Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com>
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