Apple has finally issued an official statement on the iPhone location tracking issue which raised flags for all iPhone users going into a meltdown over the fact the device was tracking users every move. As part of their location data Q&A, Apple today revealed that an iOS update — iOS 4.3.3? — would be arriving “Sometime in the next few weeks”. So far, Apple has only revealed that they will release a new minor software update in the next few weeks to reduce the size of the database cached on the device. The next major update will include some kind of encryption mechanism for the cached file to make it more secure. reduces the size of the crowd-sourced Wi-Fi hotspot and cell tower database cached on the iPhone, ceases backing up this cache, and deletes this cache entirely when Location Services is turned off. In the next major iOS software release the cache will also be encrypted on the iPhone. While there probably won’t be any feature enhancements until iOS 5 — or possibly a interim iOS 4.4 update. We will keep everyone posted as more information is made available. You can stay tuned by following us on Facebook, Twitter and/or subscribing to our RSS feed. Authors:

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