It’ll be interesting to see if they can dumb down the interface for the folks living in Dayton, OH. The people living in Athens, OH, can use it just fine. Getting Siri to understand folks in Swanton, will be a Herculean task.
I’d be surprised as it’s not in the latest dev beta. Possibly down the line before RC though.I still think Apple will offer the ability to adjust the level of transparency of Liquid Glass with the first public beta.
Are you worried about battery life, or the NSA following you?would be great to activate it when i actually need it rather than running it constantly
i truly don’t see any reason to not be able to switch on/off gps with an automated shortcut. true, you are not off the grid, but databrokers, advertisers, nefarious actors, people tracking behaviors, driving habits, etc - which all have been in the news with various abuses would have to purchase your far more general location data from a telco, while currently they can easily sweep that data off your system for free and so they do. if you are ok with that, that cool, just don’t create a shortcut to turn it off. it's a more advanced thing to do anyway. more options and flexibility are a good thing.Are you worried about battery life, or the NSA following you?
GPS (and Location Services) don't use much energy at all -- though apps like Google Maps poll it so often that they can be quite hungry.
As for the second, you'll still be 'on the grid' with GPS off.
Location services and GPS are not the same thing. GPS is something that pings satellites overhead and uses the pings to triangulate your location. It does not send data out. It cannot send data out. GPS doesn't throw data in that direction. That's not how that technology works. There's no reason to turn it off. If you do, once you turn it back on you will have to wait for it to find satellites all over again before it can figure out where you are.i truly don’t see any reason to not be able to switch on/off gps with an automated shortcut. true, you are not off the grid, but databrokers, advertisers, nefarious actors, people tracking behaviors, driving habits, etc - which all have been in the news with various abuses would have to purchase your far more general location data from a telco, while currently they can easily sweep that data off your system for free and so they do. if you are ok with that, that cool, just don’t create a shortcut to turn it off. it's a more advanced thing to do anyway. more options and flexibility are a good thing.
while yes, i agree that I was using the term GPS in lieu of Location services,but it was not implied that GPS sends out data, what is fact is that the phone stores all this location data in great detail over an large period of time and it can and is scooped up by apps. one can do a cursory web search for this issue or prior problems with the sdk controlling this behavior. There is enough information out there in videos, security websites or news reports.Location services and GPS are not the same thing. GPS is something that pings satellites overhead and uses the pings to triangulate your location. It does not send data out. It cannot send data out. GPS doesn't throw data in that direction. That's not how that technology works. There's no reason to turn it off. If you do, once you turn it back on you will have to wait for it to find satellites all over again before it can figure out where you are.
Location services uses the coordinates provided by the GPS, as well as a few other methods, to determine where you are. It's also not an outgoing thing. Location services looks at avaliable data to figure out where you are. Some of those methods are up for debate on what qualifies as outgoing data but the general idea is no, it doesn't say "Dave is on the 14th floor of the chrysler building and thinking impure thoughts."
There's little reason to turn off your phone's the ability to determine your location. There IS great reason to limit access to that information. Thats where permissions come in. iOS already has the ability to restrict or grant access to the location data on your phone. THAT'S the thing you want to turn off.
It's a Developer beta, it's not even the public beta, How bout you try sending feedback to Apple instead of complaining on a third party site.I've worked with many previous iOS and MacOS betas, and iOS 26 is the first time I've wanted to roll back to non-beta. The interface is a mess.
You appear to be fairly new here, so maybe you haven't groked this yet... but there is a general feeling amongst many in forums like this one, that Apple very rarely actually responds to and/or acts upon error reports submitted by users of their beta products -- in spite of the obvious fact that that's the entire point of those beta releases. I personally have submitted quite a few bug reports over the years via the Feedback Assistant iPhone app,... How bout you try sending feedback to Apple instead of complaining on a third party site.
Indeed it is: Apple Releases First iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 Public BetasStill not out yet, but maybe today will be the day!