Thank you again, Mark. I had not turn background refresh off. I have not done so, and I want to put in a plug here for the search box in the settings app. I don't know how long it would've taken me to actually find that setting. But the settings search thing did it right away. Mary
Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 9, 2016, at 10:48 AM, M. Taylor <mk...@ucla.edu> wrote: > > Hello Mary, > > You know, you raise an interesting subject that has been in the back of my > mind for quite some time but in the reverse, in my case. When I look at my > friends' phones, I very often see the location service indicator in their > status bar even when, like you, a location based app is not being used. > > However, although I use many of the same apps as they, and doubtless > countless others, I never, and I do mean, never, see the location services > indicator in my phone's status bar when those apps are either closed or not > tracking my location. > > The only thing that I can contribute to this is that I have disabled the > Background App Refresh service, on my phone. > > Mark > > -----Original Message----- > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of > Mary Otten > Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2016 7:32 AM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: How to tell what is using your location services > > Often enough to be irritating, I noticed that location services are on, when > I don't have any app open or in the app switcher that has been authorized to > use them, such as a Weather app, the GPS app, etc. I have a lot of apps that > are not authorized to use location services. I have other apps that are > specifically authorized to use location services only when they're open and > being used. And then there are those irritating ones that don't give you that > choice, they say always or never. I don't like that, and I do have a GPS app > and only offers that choice. I'm very careful to close the app out completely > so that it's not running in the background sucking down location service > battery usage but often, particularly in the morning, when I wake up my phone > and take it out of airplane mode, I find that location services are on. > Sometimes, just locking the screen and unlocking it is enough to make the > location services tracking notice go away. But other times, it is not. Once, > the only way I was able to get rid of it was to reboot the phone. I would > love to know why this is happening. > Mary > > > Sent from my iPhone > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - > you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - > you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. 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