Does this also mean that location accuracy is NOT improved when no Internet is available and iOS couldn't update its list of known access points around me? This would mean I could save battery while traveling by disabling wifi.
Unless it's coincidence, each of the string portions is prefixed by its length in bytes. Since they're all so short[1], it's not obvious if they're 1,2 or 4 byte lengths, or if those are just padding or other flag bytes. It smells almost like the binary plist format[2], but doesn't seem to obviously decode.
This is just casual inspection of only the sequences in the article, so might be wildly wrong, and probably irrelevant.
Brute-forcing the protobuf message without the schema surprisingly effective here though. I didn't realise it left as much structure in there.
[1] NPI
[2] https://synalysis.com/how-to-decode-apple-binary-property-li...
And by today standard I really appreciate Apple approach of doing most of the computation on the phone itself.
also I'm wondering, is there a client for that location services protocol that works on linux?
