Microsoft had a Valentine’s Day gift for Windows Insiders, firing another arrow into the heart of Cortana while also attempting to soothe European privacy concerns.
The Windows 11 24H2 preview build, 26120.3281, was released to the Dev and Beta channels and included the removal of the Location History API.
Announced as deprecated a few days earlier, the API allowed Cortana – Microsoft’s attempt at an assistant before everything became Copilot – to access 24 hours of device history if location was enabled.
Cortana is no more, and now neither is the API. According to Microsoft: “With the removal of the Location History feature, location data will no longer be saved locally, and the corresponding…