iPhone iOS 13.2 Weather Location Service issue

[deuxani]

Last night I updated my 11 Pro to iOS 13.2 and the weather app and widget have since been acting really strange. If you reboot your phone all looks well, no GPS icon in the top left. Then you scroll to your widget screen, it obviously checks your location, but after that the hollow GPS arrow will be shown and will not go away.

When you follow the same process but instead open the Weather app, the same will happen once you close the weather app. Hollow GPC arrow forever

If you set the Location Services to Never for Weather it will continue to show the hollow GPS arrow in the top and next to the service:

That should definitely not happen. But then if you turn it back on, restart your phone, the following is shown in the widget:

I obviously don't live in the ocean. Only by turning Flight Mode on and off it will get your location back, but obviously it will keep on showing the hollow GPS arrow.

Is anyone else seeing this behaviour too? I want to get rid of that hollow arrow!

 

[Ninflu]

There is a whole thread here, covering the Location Bug on iOS 13.

It can be found here: https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...ug.2201997/page-5?post=27920260#post-27920260

 

[deuxani]

For me it's really just the Weather app acting weird. I've uninstalled it and rebooted my phone and the problem is gone. I obviously want the app back, just not the arrow and possible battery drain.

 

[papbot]

For me it's really just the Weather app acting weird. I've uninstalled it and rebooted my phone and the problem is gone. I obviously want the app back, just not the arrow and possible battery drain.

My location arrow stays on permanently in either hollow or solid form, I use several weather apps and a variety of other services enabled. No battery drain noticed on our 5 devices.

 

[deuxani]

There is no escaping the hollow Weather arrow! So I’ve uninstalled the Weather app and rebooted and I haven’t seen the hollow arrow since. However..... this morning my bedtime alarm goes off and on screen it shows the Goodmorning screen with the weather widget (how is that possible if the Weather app is not even there?). After closing the bedtime widget screen the hollow arrow is back! Madness.

 

[papbot]

There is no escaping the hollow Weather arrow! So I’ve uninstalled the Weather app and rebooted and I haven’t seen the hollow arrow since. However..... this morning my bedtime alarm goes off and on screen it shows the Goodmorning screen with the weather widget (how is that possible if the Weather app is not even there?). After closing the bedtime widget screen the hollow arrow is back! Madness.

The native weather app is part of the operating system and while you may be able to delete the icon from the screen I don’t think you can remove the function. If it’s a hollow arrow that means that whatever app has triggered it is only using a geofence location, it is not actively using your location with little to no battery impact. If you leave the defined area it will again obtain your location - solid arrow - and then revert back to the hollow arrow. I have all system functions enabled as well as several weather and radar apps installed so my arrow, either hollow or solid, is always on screen, cycling back and forth from hollow to solid. We have 5 devices set up this way and have seen no issues related to it.

In addition your carrier requires this function to operate for your cell network, it has to find towers as you move around. So you will never get rid of the arrow permanently. And if you ever need emergency service you would not want location services permanently disabled, which I don’t think is possible. if you have a WiFi only device and never take it out of your house you may be able to never view it, I’m not certain about that since I’ve never paid that much attention.

 

[deuxani]

The native weather app is part of the operating system and while you may be able to delete the icon from the screen I don’t think you can remove the function. If it’s a hollow arrow that means that whatever app has triggered it is only using a geofence location, it is not actively using your location with little to no battery impact. If you leave the defined area it will again obtain your location - solid arrow - and then revert back to the hollow arrow. I have all system functions enabled as well as several weather and radar apps installed so my arrow, either hollow or solid, is always on screen, cycling back and forth from hollow to solid. We have 5 devices set up this way and have seen no issues related to it.

In addition your carrier requires this function to operate for your cell network, it has to find towers as you move around. So you will never get rid of the arrow permanently. And if you ever need emergency service you would not want location services permanently disabled, which I don’t think is possible. if you have a WiFi only device and never take it out of your house you may be able to never view it, I’m not certain about that since I’ve never paid that much attention.

The thing is that I only sporadically have the GPS arrow show (only shortly when I unlock my phone). All of them are set to only show While Using, so basically only in certain apps it will show for a short period and then go away.

I have almost all location services turned on and as you can see in the top left, no arrow is showing. And I also have the Status Bar Icon setting turned on for System Services. For me it’s very weird to actually see the arrow and it definitely should not show up most of the time.

 

[papbot]

But all those that are in grey have been on in the last 24 hours. Most if not all the ones that are enabled there would just come on sporadically. Like that one for cell network search. That one will come on every time you restart the phone or significantly change your location. If one was currently using your location or just recently did it would be purple. None of those system settings require a constant location status. They’ll go on and off as needed. My weather apps do need a constant location as well as certain others so I will always see the hollow arrow and then a solid one as one or more of the other systems access it.