"X would like to use your current location, accept or deny"

On normal phones, apps that use network etc can be shipped with a cert that disables this query - the app becomes trusted. Other apps that are not trusted on the phone are forced to ask.

Obviously there is a class of apps that Apple is not allowing this level of trust.

I believe the location service (GPS) uses a fair amount of battery power. So if you have Location Services set to NO in the setting menu to help minimize battery power and you go to use the map feature or some other app that uses GPS it will ask you if you want to use location services - when you say yes - it turns the location services to YES in the settings menu.

So you need to remember to turn this back off again if you want to try to conserve battery power through the remainder of the day.

I believe after you have said Yes to the same app two or three times, it will remember and stop asking you.

I don't believe it remembers that at all - like I said, if you have your LOCATION SERVICES turned off - and go to use an app that requires it - it's gonna ask you if you wanna turn this feature on.

If the LOCATION SERVICES is already turned on in your settings - it won't ask you if you want to allow this as it is already turned on - go ahead and test it out yourself.

Turn off location services - and then go to Maps and locatre yourself - you'll see the message.

Now lock the phone, unlock and go back to maps and find your location again - does it ask you if you wanna turn it on - no it doesn't, because it's already on 🙂

Same here, it asks regardless of how that switch is set, and it is annoying.

thats weird, since i enabled it in settings it never asks me

It is just like the UAC on Vista, it doesn't matter if I have location services turned on or off. I get asked permission every single time, by the stock apps! Camera, google maps, photos, etc. all do it as well as some third party apps. After making fun of Vista in those commercials this is really quite annoying.

Can someone explain to me exactly what this feature does? I had it ask me when I was using Safari to connect to my local Library. I disallowed it because I was afraid that it was reporting what information I was sending to log into my library record.