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It was enabled for me by default, but the iOS location icon is always displayed on the Springboard when it's being used. Also, Foursquare will constantly send
by fintler 13y ago
It was enabled for me by default, but the iOS location icon is always displayed on the Springboard when it's being used.
Also, Foursquare will constantly send you notifications saying "It looks like you're near Foobar, would you like to check in?". They make it very, very obvious that they're tracking your location.
It was a quick matter of going into preferences and looking to see what applications used location services recently to fix things up. The biggest offenders were Foursquare and the Google app. I ended up turning Google off completely, and disabled Foursquare except for when I have the app open. Problem solved.
- salemh 13y agoI could see the notifications of locations helpful if it was "trained" (Netflix learning algo style) after a time, but the time to "train" the learning/notifications wouldn't be worth the annoyance of the high-frequency of popups. I wonder if they have tried frequency intervals/usage/checkins. Even Netflix (anecdote) took perhaps a year or more until recommendations "fit" my profile.
- kkwok 13y agoHave you seen noticeable battery life improvements?
- fintler 13y agoNo. However, this is a newer iPhone 5 and I plug it in every night -- so I really don't pay attention to the battery. Older models, or not plugging it in every night, might show something different.