First off, a little refresher… When the “Ask Next Time” option is selected in Settings for an app, it’ll prompt with the following options when opening the app:
- Allow Once (leaves settings at “Ask Next Time”)
- Allow While Using App (changes settings to “While Using the App”)
- Don’t Allow (changes settings to “Never”)
When choosing the second or third option, it changes it in Settings and no longer asks you. That makes sense, but what would be the point of choosing “Allow Once” every time when opening the app so it can keep asking you? I mean, an app shouldn’t be using your location in the background anyway (unless it’s set to “Always” in Settings)…and there’s no way to have it keep asking you once you don’t allow it. It seems like there should be a fourth option, “Don’t Allow Once”, so that it can still continue asking next time.
I have an app where I don’t always want to share my location, and the “Ask Next Time” setting is useless to me…because once I select “Don’t Allow”, I have to go back into Settings to have it ask or allow it again next time. As a result, this seems to defeat the purpose of the “Ask Next Time” setting since I’m always having to go into Settings to manage it anyway.
Is there a use case where the “Ask Next Time” and “Allow Once” option is useful? Am I missing something, or doing something wrong?
- Allow Once (leaves settings at “Ask Next Time”)
- Allow While Using App (changes settings to “While Using the App”)
- Don’t Allow (changes settings to “Never”)
When choosing the second or third option, it changes it in Settings and no longer asks you. That makes sense, but what would be the point of choosing “Allow Once” every time when opening the app so it can keep asking you? I mean, an app shouldn’t be using your location in the background anyway (unless it’s set to “Always” in Settings)…and there’s no way to have it keep asking you once you don’t allow it. It seems like there should be a fourth option, “Don’t Allow Once”, so that it can still continue asking next time.
I have an app where I don’t always want to share my location, and the “Ask Next Time” setting is useless to me…because once I select “Don’t Allow”, I have to go back into Settings to have it ask or allow it again next time. As a result, this seems to defeat the purpose of the “Ask Next Time” setting since I’m always having to go into Settings to manage it anyway.
Is there a use case where the “Ask Next Time” and “Allow Once” option is useful? Am I missing something, or doing something wrong?