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Starfyre

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Does anyone know if there is a control center toggle that can disable your devices location? Battery life is much improved when location is disabled. Looking for a quick way to do this without going Settings -> Privacy, etc. It looks like there is a toggle for many things, but the most important one looks left out, or am I just not looking hard enough.
 
No, there is no such shortcut.. I never understood the point of having a smart phone if your going to disable useful settings...

I like your signature photo. I just got my first Subaru, a 2018 Outback and love it!
 
Nope. I found out last Friday and even asked a Genius.

Data + Location = battery drain
Data + Hotspot = battery drain
Data + Location + Hotspot = even worse battery drain

^ If my phone has data and hotspot on, I need the toggle to turn off location. If data and location are on, I need to turn off hotspot. Because hotspot and location will make your phone hot. That's a triple whammy.

If you do Uber or UberEats, it's kinda a big deal because data + location needs to be turned on at all times. I have to use a third phone just for data + location turned on. Then another one to browse with when my main phone has data and hotspot on.

Became the deal breaker for me last Friday at getting the X. Apple needs to improve Control Center by alot for iOS12. More customizations and show more than just four. iOS lacks this critical app called Notification Toggle on Android.

I hope by the next X, Apple offers better toggles, more RAM, split-view, and PiP. It's 2017. I can't believe iPads have most of that already.
 
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Nope. I found out last Friday and even asked a Genius.

Data + Location = battery drain
Data + Hotspot = battery drain
Data + Location + Hotspot = even worse battery drain

^ If my phone has data and hotspot on, I need the toggle to turn off location. If data and location are on, I need to turn off hotspot. Because hotspot and location will make your phone hot. That's a triple whammy.

If you do Uber or UberEats, it's kinda a big deal because data + location needs to be turned on at all times. I have to use a third phone just for data + location turned on. Then another one to browse with when my main phone has data and hotspot on.

Became the deal breaker for me last Friday at getting the X. Apple needs to improve Control Center by alot for iOS12. More customizations and show more than just four. iOS lacks this critical app called Notification Toggle on Android.

I hope by the next X, Apple offers better toggles, more RAM, split-view, and PiP. It's 2017. I can't believe iPads have most of that already.

I could use that Hotspot toggle too, Hotspot and Location in control center. I don't think that's a hardware upgrade required to do that. I'm fine with my X the way it is until that software upgrade gets released.
 
Go to location and turn off location for everything except the apps that need it on, only while in use. There's no apps that should require always on GPS.... For me I only have maps set to while in use.

Then go into system services and turn off everything except Find my iPhone. I don't need location based ads or my compass to be calibrated with GPS. My phone still functions fine with that off.
 
SBSettings
Intelliscreen
Winterboard

^ Three of my favorite jailbreak apps of all-time. I miss those 1.1.4 through pre-iOS7 days, right Scott?

I'm an Android guy now but I still can reminisce when the early jailbreaking community was still awesome. The years from 2008-2011 felt very fresh to me.

In fairness, the location toggle has never existed by default ever on iOS. So I won't complain about something that wasn't there in the first place. I can't complain at something that iOS never had.

Apple is still not completely off the hook here. This is the 11th version of iOS. They revamped Control Center for the first time in four years. It has nearly a page full of toggles and Apple still couldn't add a location toggle. SMH.

That's my deal breaker with iPhone X. It's not really the hardware but how less intuitive iOS has become for the last four years or so. Apple also needs to work on their inferior notification system and ability to tether.

Apple is already way behind in the multiple video format compatibility department.
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Is jailbreaking still even a thing now? That was so long ago, loved that.
I only did jailbreaking when iPhone OS was still very barren. I was so bored with my first gen iPod touch, I jb it within five days. I miss my lightsaber unlock sounds on my iPhone 2G. Even the cool Christmas lights around. But Winterboard (formerly Summerboard) crashed all the time. That iPhone 2G only had 128mb RAM. I don't even root much. I only installed a custom ROM once with Android. I just keep my stuff in stock.

I noticed recently my Dasher was killing my battery and hated how I heard notification sounds, so I reinstalled an older apk of Greenify and paid for a donation pack to greenify some settings apps. Now my RAM usage went down 10-20% and Dasher won't annoy me anymore once it hibernates with a double tap. It is those settings apps I really like from Android.

I'm not even a hacker. Best how-to videos comes from YouTube. It's like a visual Google Search. That's how I jb my iDevices and got my PSP 1001 to run emulators back in the day. I hope there is a jailbreak for iOS11. Just to add SBSettings again and customize that boring homescreen.
 
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