I phone 11 pro, had beta 4 and now public release. My location arrow on the upper left of the screen keeps coming on and going off with no apps open. No apps are showing persistent location usage in the privacy>location setting. This wasn’t happening with my XR, so I’m not sure if this is the phone or iOS. Thanks in advance if anyone has any ideas.
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iPhone Does anyone have the location arrow persistently on
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I have had this issues since upgrading to the Pro Max on Friday. Previously had XS Max w no issues, Beta 4 and public 13.1 as well. Have posted it in a few other forms as well. Seems like others are having this issue too. I haven’t tried a full location services reset yet, was hoping public today would fix it. Maybe 13.2 beta if released “tomorrow” like others have speculated may have a fix. Not sure if it’s a graphical bug or if it’s actually taking a battery hit. Can’t put a finger on it.
Is the location arrow solid or the outlined one?! The system might be using it for other reasons, not specifically related to the apps.
This has been brought up a time or two already. You have an Apple Watch connected?
I saw the thread about location and Apple Watch, but I don’t have an Apple Watch. I’m a little perplexed is all. I’m not sure what changed. I think it has to do with the iPhone pro, not necessarily iOS 13 at this point, as iPhone X, XR, and SE that I have in my house aren’t showing this. The solid arrow comes on couple minutes then goes away, it seems random. Probably not a big deal.
I know you said you don't have a watch but for me it was my watch face with the weather on it. Maybe a weather widget?
Does anyone else have problem with the GPS in iOS 13.1? Mine seems to be on about 80% of the time.
From Location services settings I have concluded that it is caused by System Services. Problem is that none of the services have purple arrow even though the GPS icon is showing in status bar. Disabling all system services doesn’t solve this as the arrow is still shown in status bar. However tapping the Status Bar Icon option (on system services page) off does work.
I’m not sure if this is bug with GPS or UI showing the arrow icon even when location services is used because it does not seem to use that much battery. However I have disabled all location services for now.
There was a small discussion about this in reddit r/ios but it did not gain much popularity.
I’m using iPhone 11 Pro 256Gb with iOS13.1.
From Location services settings I have concluded that it is caused by System Services. Problem is that none of the services have purple arrow even though the GPS icon is showing in status bar. Disabling all system services doesn’t solve this as the arrow is still shown in status bar. However tapping the Status Bar Icon option (on system services page) off does work.
I’m not sure if this is bug with GPS or UI showing the arrow icon even when location services is used because it does not seem to use that much battery. However I have disabled all location services for now.
There was a small discussion about this in reddit r/ios but it did not gain much popularity.
I’m using iPhone 11 Pro 256Gb with iOS13.1.
I see the same issue. Nothing in system services is flagged as having used gps but it is shown as ON very often. Have everything turned off except 'find my phone" and Emergency/sos.
Maybe this... cycled these settings and it seems to have stopped.
Anecdotal but I won’t argue with results.
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...yea, I'm also getting the same exact issue?!
Since iOS 13, I am constantly seeing this icon in the status bar:
Its ALWAYS there and has only been ALWAYS there since iO13 (and I'm actually using iOS 13.1.1).
I checked in the Location services under Privacy, and figured out it was the native Weather app causing this :
When I turn this off, and I check the weather app on my Apple Watch, I get a notification asking me if I want to allow the Weather app to use my Location. Even when selecting the 'Whilst Using app' option, the icon seems to stay in the status bar of the phone?!
This never happened before - is this a bug in iOS13?
Since iOS 13, I am constantly seeing this icon in the status bar:
Its ALWAYS there and has only been ALWAYS there since iO13 (and I'm actually using iOS 13.1.1).
I checked in the Location services under Privacy, and figured out it was the native Weather app causing this :
When I turn this off, and I check the weather app on my Apple Watch, I get a notification asking me if I want to allow the Weather app to use my Location. Even when selecting the 'Whilst Using app' option, the icon seems to stay in the status bar of the phone?!
This never happened before - is this a bug in iOS13?
For me it seemed to be happening if WiFi is active but not connected to a network.