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iPhone 11 Pro Location service has been constantly on...any idea why?
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I had this also, I’m on 11 pro max 13.1.2, watch series 5 6.1 beta
I went into location services, then system services and turned off “motion calibration & distance” and it’s made the Constant arrow go away, the solid one still comes on but that’s the phone telling my watch the weather as I have weather on background refresh for my watch
I went into location services, then system services and turned off “motion calibration & distance” and it’s made the Constant arrow go away, the solid one still comes on but that’s the phone telling my watch the weather as I have weather on background refresh for my watch
I just noticed something, perhaps it is relevant to this topic, perhaps not. I went into General > Background App Refresh in the Watch app on my iPhone and found this at the top of the screen:
”Apps with complications on the current watch face will continue to refresh, even when their background app refresh setting is off”
So, the toggle means nothing to complications that are in use?
”Apps with complications on the current watch face will continue to refresh, even when their background app refresh setting is off”
So, the toggle means nothing to complications that are in use?
....unfortunately, that didn't work either.
Just tried this also but the hollow arrow still remains on my status bar.
I also tried disabling this from with the watch app, but the hollow arrow is still remaining.
....its not because even when I disable this option on my phone, I still see the hollow arrow constantly displayed in the status bar.
The ONLY thing which is making the hollow arrow vanish for me is by selecting either the 'Never' option or 'Ask Next Time' for the native Weather app in Location Services under Privacy.
The weather app needs to know where you are for the temperature. It can change even within a few miles.....unfortunately, that didn't work either.
Just tried this also but the hollow arrow still remains on my status bar.
I also tried disabling this from with the watch app, but the hollow arrow is still remaining.
....its not because even when I disable this option on my phone, I still see the hollow arrow constantly displayed in the status bar.
The ONLY thing which is making the hollow arrow vanish for me is by selecting either the 'Never' option or 'Ask Next Time' for the native Weather app in Location Services under Privacy.
I'm not disputing this - I'm sure it does and I agree with you. It's just that this scenario never happened pre iOS 13 so it must be a bug ?!
I suppose I’m naive, but what is there to complain about? Why does it matter?
It must be my Apple Watch which is causing this issue - when I disconnect my watch from my iPhone, the hollow location arrow then disappears.....
Because now I don’t really know when an app is using location because the icon is always there. It’s useless now. It shouldn’t be there as it’s not always using the location data.