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GPS is basically always on - on iOS if you have a background location app, you're being located every 5 minutes at least.
by HappyTypist 9y ago
GPS is basically always on - on iOS if you have a background location app, you're being located every 5 minutes at least.
- dsl 9y agoFor iOS the GPS chip itself is only turned on when 1) a foreground application is using location 2) a navigation app is using location and you task switch (that blue bar you get at the top) 3) for background location, when the device reassociates to a new cell tower
- valuearb 9y agoThis isn't true, an app has to explicitly turn GPS hardware on. Almost all the time apps, foreground or background, get locations passively, which is done by triangulating cell tower positions, i.e. the location the phone already knows.