Hollow location Arrow bug?

[jnappleseed]

Hey all, can someone shed some light on what I suspect is a bug or maybe I am misunderstanding how widgets work? I have the hollow location arrow appear in the top left corner of my iPhone 11 Pro Max. The only widget I have on any of my screens is the smart widget (on my first screen). I have granted location access to the weather app, and when it asked me if I want to allow it access for up to 15 min for widgets, blah, blah, blah, I selected no. Further, in location services in settings, i have weather to “while using” but the hollowed out arrow is still appearing even when I’m not using the weather app. I know it’s the weather app because I do not have any other app access granted to my location, further if I select “never” for weather in location services, then the hollow arrow suddenly goes away. I switch back to “while using” it comes back. Is the hollow arrow present because of the Smart Stack? I tried to test my theory and I removed the Smart Stack, opened weather, closed weather, and now instead of a hollow arrow I have a filled arrow (even though I fully closed out of weather.) any advice anyone?

 

[teeshot44]

Hey all, can someone shed some light on what I suspect is a bug or maybe I am misunderstanding how widgets work? I have the hollow location arrow appear in the top left corner of my iPhone 11 Pro Max. The only widget I have on any of my screens is the smart widget (on my first screen). I have granted location access to the weather app, and when it asked me if I want to allow it access for up to 15 min for widgets, blah, blah, blah, I selected no. Further, in location services in settings, i have weather to “while using” but the hollowed out arrow is still appearing even when I’m not using the weather app. I know it’s the weather app because I do not have any other app access granted to my location, further if I select “never” for weather in location services, then the hollow arrow suddenly goes away. I switch back to “while using” it comes back. Is the hollow arrow present because of the Smart Stack? I tried to test my theory and I removed the Smart Stack, opened weather, closed weather, and now instead of a hollow arrow I have a filled arrow (even though I fully closed out of weather.) any advice anyone?

Look in Settings-Privacy-Location Services. You will see what is going on.

 

[Jmausmuc]

Same issue. For me it’s the weather app

 

[S G]

For me, it's the system customization toggle. If I turn it off, I can't have night shift implemented by sunset time, but if is on, the hollow arrow is constantly there. This started recently with iOS 14.2 or possibly with opening the Shortcuts app. I don't have any automation using location though... Any help?

Also, I often get the spinning wheel in iOS 14 next to WiFi, even if nothing is downloading. It only goes away by doing a force restart.

 

[AdsLuqs]

Same here! I have always the hollow arrow in the left top corner next to the hour but it goes away when I leave my Apple Watch in the table. At the beginning i thought maybe it was due to the hand wash app but I disable it and the icon remains. May be it is related to the last version of the watch OS? after the update to watchOS 7.1 is when I started facing this problem.

 

[S G]

For me, it's the system customization toggle. If I turn it off, I can't have night shift implemented by sunset time, but if is on, the hollow arrow is constantly there. This started recently with iOS 14 or possibly with Shortcuts. I don't have any automation using location though... Any help?

I just switched to the 12 mini and the problem was ported there as well. A hollow arrow appears next to the clock and stays there forever as soon as I turn on location services for system customization. It worked fine a few weeks ago when I had system customization on without an arrow, and I can't figure out what triggered this new permanent behavior.