This is the main reason I switched from iOS to Android. Google began deprecating features in their iOS apps and location service was one of the first to go. I

This is the main reason I switched from iOS to Android. Google began deprecating features in their iOS apps and location service was one of the first to go. I find this tracking fascinating, useful and fun. There are a number of apps that attempt to use similar data to pull together statistics and metrics about time periods. It is opt in now and on a Galaxy S4 with the latest Android update doesn't use the battery excessively.