Icloud battery drain fix in HA 69.0

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I noticed that they added a function that is not outlined in the documentation. icloud was hard coded to have a maximum refresh rate of 1 minute which can drain batteries. You can now set it to a more reasonable level like 10 minutes.

device_tracker:
  - platform: icloud
    username: !secret icloudusername
    password: !secret icloudpassword
    max_interval: 10
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Sorry, it is not fixed as I had hoped. This is the refreshes for an away icloud device tracker, it still is every minute. I setup an database to keep track of the updates, looks like its was 1 minute to start and moved to 2 minutes farther away.

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