I don't want to be harsh, but Apple really should walk the talk regarding privacy. It has its heart in the right place but bugs like this show how careless they are.
This is a security issue, where Apple is pretty crap, just like MS or Google or everybody else. Taking a look at the security patches of macOS, Android or Windows is pretty depressing.
Privacy is concerned with the company purposefully spying on its users, like Google, MS or Facebook do.
I never thought of Apple as caring much about privacy given the insane amount of third party tracking scripts loaded in apps on the AppStore. What I would give for LittleSnitch running on iOS...
Set up https://www.charlesproxy.com/ on the same network as your phone, then set it to be the phone's proxy server. Voila, you can now be horrified by the amount of tracking going on. You can even MITM SSL traffic by adding a trusted CA to your phone.
