I don't think Apple are requesting a lot of information as this article suggests right? It's just clearing the air as to why it needs to check for location when

I don't think Apple are requesting a lot of information as this article suggests right? It's just clearing the air as to why it needs to check for location when all manual toggles are switched off. Even if it only asked for the country, the location icon would still appear. How do you know that applications are requesting for more location data that others, just curious?