Re: How to tell what is using your location services

[Gordan Radić]

Hi! Incoming notifications are part of the push notifications service which should differ from the location services. It is expected fro user to want some notifications while app is not running or it is removed from the switcher but there's no need for location service to be turned on if the user are not actively using the app depending on te location. GPS extended usage drains battery a lot more than notifications and user should know if some apps are using GPS when completely turned off. S poštovanjem Gordan Radić 10.6.2016. u 19:04, Mary Otten je napisao/la: I get some of those notifications to, particularly mail and Facebook. I always assumed that was some kind of function having to do with the notifications set in the notification Center. But who knows? Mary Sent from my iPhone On Jun 10, 2016, at 10:01 AM, M. Taylor <mk...@ucla.edu> wrote: Hello Mary, I am confident that disabling the Background App Refresh service is the solution to your problem to the extent that the location services icon will no longer be displayed in your status bar when an app is not actively using it. The funny thing is that even when the Background App Refresh service is disabled, many apps continue to run in the background, even when not in the app switcher. For example, I continue to receive notifications from the Facebook app, the Twitter app, the native mail app, my banking apps, and several other popular third-party apps. Mark From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Mary Otten Sent: Friday, June 10, 2016 9:21 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: How to tell what is using your location services Hi Gordon, Oh, I am not saying that the problem has been solved. I was just able to find the setting that Mark was talking about, and discovered that I had not turned it off. So I did so. Now, if over the next several days, I don't see that location services thing in my status bar, I will have to suppose that it did indeed solve the problem. The question as to why is still a Mistry, since the app switcher is empty when that location services thing shows up. Sent from my iPhone On Jun 10, 2016, at 4:39 AM, Gordan Radić <razbij...@gmail.com> wrote: Hi, Mary! I'm glad you solved the problem but it's still pretty unlogical to me. If I recall correctly, you said you've been noticing Location Services icon even when the apps which use Location Services was completely turned off from the App Switcher. The setting you just disabled is relevant to the apps still beeing in the background, meaning beeing available through the App Switcher allowing them to refresh or not refresh while there and should not have any impact to completely turned off apps. Again, I'm glad it works for you but I suspect something else is goin on there. S poštovanjem Gordan Radić <nemoviz_animated.gif> <email.png> <facebook.png> <twitter.png> 10.6.2016. u 0:10, Mary Otten je napisao/la: 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 wa y 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. 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