AppleInsider:

Apple has said that the iPhone 11 family is using location data to regulate Ultra Wideband emissions, but is not collecting the data, and everything is being done on-device.

Apple has issued a statement to AppleInsider and other venues in response to security researcher Brian Krebs discovering that the iPhone 11 Pro appears to periodically utilize its GPS module to gather location data in the face of user wishes.

Krebs was unable to replicate the potential security issue on an iPhone 8 —which makes sense now, given Apple’s statement about UWB management.

As is so often the case, the media set its hair on fire over this issue instead of simply waiting for a reasonable response from Apple.