Location Feature in 2.1

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  1. MotionxxUSxx, Sep 12, 2008

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    Does this still work the same way as in previous versions of the firmware. I was hoping that if a app turned location services on, after closing the app it would turn location services off? Can someone confirm

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  2. spyz88, Sep 12, 2008

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    If you have location services off, a new box will come up asking you if you want to go to the settings instead of just OK or cancel.
     
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  3. mcdj, Sep 12, 2008

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    Wirelessly posted (iPhone: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 2_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.18.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.1 Mobile/5F136 Safari/525.20)

    This is totally annoying. Now you have to go to settings and turn on locations then go back to the app you were using.
     
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  4. MotionxxUSxx, Sep 12, 2008

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    When you leave the app does it turn it off?
     
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  5. rockinrocker, Sep 12, 2008

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    yeah, sounds like a step backwards to me.
     
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  6. jamestemroot, Sep 12, 2008

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    Completely a step backwards...it now takes 5 clicks to turn it on from maps and back into maps to use it, instead of 'ALLOW' :mad:

     
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  7. MotionxxUSxx, Sep 12, 2008

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    The only thing I can think of, is that they fixed something with the gps and battery and that if you leave it on, it will not affect battery life when it is not actually being used by a app.
     
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  8. jamestemroot, Sep 12, 2008

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    I hope so, will try to test this out over the next few days...but if this was the case, why even have an ON / OFF switch for location services?
     
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  9. psywzrd, Sep 12, 2008

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    Very true. It would be nice to get some sort of clarification from Apple on this.
     
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  10. redman042, Sep 12, 2008

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    I just tried maps and it didn't ask me for location permission again. Not sure why others are having this problem.

    Is it me or is Google Maps performing much better now? Seems to load maps from the cache much faster for one thing.
     
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