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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Apple Inc. denied it is chase the movements of its iPhone customers, but said it module provide a code update that stores less positioning aggregation on phones in salutation to public shout over concealment issues.

"Apple is not chase the positioning of your iPhone," the consort said in a evidence on Wednesday. "Apple has never done so and has no plans to ever do so."

Still, the consort said its iPhones keep "a database of Wi-Fi hotspots and radiophone towers around your underway locations... to support your iPhone apace and accurately intend its positioning when requested."

Some of that positioning aggregation is stored on apiece iPhone, and is hardback up in iTunes, message that it would be possible for someone with admittance to a person's machine to regain aggregation most their movements.

In response, Apple plans to release a newborn code update that would revilement the size of the wireless point positioning database stored on its iPhones, and stop championship up that information. The code module be released in the incoming few weeks, it said.

Concerns most chase were upraised earlier this period by a inform by digit machine programmers who presented investigate showing the iPhone was logging locations. Privacy advocates hit sharply criticized Apple, while the Federal Communications Commission and Senator Al Franken hit asked the consort to explain its policy.

Google Inc, a unmerciful competitor of Apple in ambulatory computing, has also visaged intense criticism over reports that Android based phones track the locations of users.

In hunt to explain its position, Apple said the accumulation is anonymous and shows only the positioning of Wi-Fi hotspots and radiophone towers close the iPhone's location. It said those geographic points could be more than 100 miles away from the actualised positioning of the iPhone.

Separately, Apple also said a albescent version of the iPhone 4 module be acquirable on Thursday after imperfectness to deliver the help when it was introduced terminal year.

Apple shares were up $1 at $351.42.

(Reporting by Apostle Thomasch; Editing by Derek Caney)

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