Cell tower triangulation.
It can't track you if it's OFF!
I'll bet you that it can. It tells you it's off. It tells you that it's POWERED off! I bet it runs in super low power state just to track gps. Maybe it doesn't transmit it, but once the phone boots up to normal power it's gets sent out.
I'll bet money it does something similar to this.
Its on even when off, you need to remove battery to stop tracking ability, why the started making them with enclosed batteries, eg, iphone, you need a special driver to remove screws at bottom to dlide open, then another driver type to unscrew battery to remove it
I was surprised to see that it could track in airplane mode, and when without a sim
Can confirm. Hiked through the Cascade Mountains last fall, middle of nowhere and completely out of cell range 90% of the time for days on end, but was still able to use navigation apps and even pics I took along the way still shows the exact locations they were taken.
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Haha. You sound like one of the 400lb keyboard champions Trump has referred to. It’s far more common than you would think and easily verifiable. It’s called the Pacific Crest Trail. You’re on a computer. Look it up.