Why is Maps always running?

[Amino Man]

I downloaded a System Monitoring app too see why my battery seems to be draining fast and it shows that Maps is running. I do nit have Maps in my app switcher and I even force rebooted my iPhone 4. I also tried turning off location services.

Nothing seems to want to shut Maps down. What's the deal?

 

[Cynikal.Mindset]

do you have iHud or any other app like that uses location services? check what apps are using location services and kill them and see which one is staying on in the background causing the issue

 

[Amino Man]

do you have iHud or any other app like that uses location services? check what apps are using location services and kill them and see which one is staying on in the background causing the issue

I have no other location-aware apps. I just realized I spelled "always" wrong in the title.

 

[Cynikal.Mindset]

hard reset and see if the problem persists

 

[Small White Car]

I downloaded a System Monitoring app too see why my battery seems to be draining fast and it shows that Maps is running.

What's the app you used to discover that? Are you positive maps is running and the monitoring app is not just showing you a list of apps that are still in the RAM? Because if that's the case, it's not a problem.

I don't know this one way or the other, I'm just asking if the system monitor you're using is being clear...perhaps it's not explaining what it's showing you very well.

 

[Amino Man]

What's the app you used to discover that? Are you positive maps is running and the monitoring app is not just showing you a list of apps that are still in the RAM? Because if that's the case, it's not a problem.

I don't know this one way or the other, I'm just asking if the system monitor you're using is being clear...perhaps it's not explaining what it's showing you very well.

System Lite

 

[Small White Car]

Just tried it and it seems that phone, mail, and maps are the 3 things I can never totally kill.

If I had to guess I'd say this program is using the name "maps" to describe various things the OS is doing in relation to location services, and perhaps they always run, just like the phone.

I'm just speculating, maybe someone else who knows can explain it to us.

 

[Amino Man]

Just tried it and it seems that phone, mail, and maps are the 3 things I can never totally kill.

If I had to guess I'd say this program is using the name "maps" to describe various things the OS is doing in relation to location services, and perhaps they always run, just like the phone.

I'm just speculating, maybe someone else who knows can explain it to us.

I just tried iStat and it doesn't show maps running. So maybe like you said, SYSTEM Lite is just calling the location services "Maps" to simplify it. However, I wonder why they'd do that because they also provide a list of the various daemons that are running.