Location services in control centre

Famzee wrote: "Why is there still no feature to quickly turn on and off your location through control centre shortcut?"

As we're just users like yourself here, we don't know why. If the iOS 13 update later today doesn't provide that feature, consider sending feedback to Apple via this form:

https://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html

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Lawrence Finch wrote: "You probably could create a shortcut to do this using Siri."

Not in Shortcuts 2.2 in iOS 12: "Shortcuts cannot change Personal Hotspot, VPN, or Location Services settings." [Source]

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Famzee wrote:

Why is there still no feature to quickly turn on and off your location through control centre shortcut? for someone like me who keeps it off to save battery and turns it on to use, it’s a hassle navigating through the settings menus to turn it on and off each time after use.

You are laboring under the misconception that location services uses energy. It doesn't. And it's a bad idea to turn it off because if it is off and your phone is lost or stolen there will be no way to track it.

You probably could create a shortcut to do this using Siri.

You may be pretty sure, but you would be wrong. Obviously everything consumes energy, but location services is only a receiver. As a rough estimate leaving location services on for a day uses less energy than a 1 minute phone call.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-x4OkJLzw0

Please, refer to the link above.

It's probably just to drive traffic to the youtube channel.

Lawrence Finch wrote: "It's probably just to drive traffic to the youtube channel."

Except that it's Apple's own Support channel – not the poster's.

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Thanks for the correction, I didn't click on it (to avoid driving traffic to it).