What you quoted is specifically about traffic collection. I don't know where to find a definitive source on this now, but Apple used to have a marketing page that said
> When you use Apple Maps, your route from A to B is fragmented into scrambled sections on Apple servers because nobody else should know your entire route. Not even us. In fact, we don’t even know who requests a route.
My recollection was that the device itself sends multiple requests in chunks to get the route, but I don't know if this is accurate or if it's just fragmented on the server prior to any data retention.
In any case, the point is that Apple very intentionally discards data that can be used to track you, and anonymizes what they do retain. While yes, it's very likely that Apple could figure out where you are if your device is set to use Apple services and they wanted this info, they've set up their services to make it as difficult as possible for them to figure this out.
> When you use Apple Maps, your route from A to B is fragmented into scrambled sections on Apple servers because nobody else should know your entire route. Not even us. In fact, we don’t even know who requests a route.
My recollection was that the device itself sends multiple requests in chunks to get the route, but I don't know if this is accurate or if it's just fragmented on the server prior to any data retention.
In any case, the point is that Apple very intentionally discards data that can be used to track you, and anonymizes what they do retain. While yes, it's very likely that Apple could figure out where you are if your device is set to use Apple services and they wanted this info, they've set up their services to make it as difficult as possible for them to figure this out.