IOS 13.1 iPhone - privacy location bug NOT fixed.

A little update: one of my co-worker states that he had the bug after the update to iOS 13 and found out it was the Weather app the problem, it use continuosly the gps even if you set it up to use it only when you open it, deactivating the GPS for the Weather app apparently solved the GPS activation issue.

I just installed the latest update from today and the constant location tracking icon is no longer showing. I downloaded the update, but before I installed it I reset the location and privacy settings in my phone. Once it rebooted I opened the apps that normally use my location and granted the permissions I wanted and then used my phone as I normally would and so far so good

I have been able to minimize the issue on my phone. I looked at all of the app settings to find the apps that would not allow me to set permissions to NEVER for location tracking and I deleted them one by one. I also turned off all of the settings privacy, system services section. I rebooted my phone and found that the issue rarely happens now, except when I try to select a wifi network, that still causes the location icon to appear 100% of the time.

I reinstalled all of the apps I had deleted and so far over the last few hours the issue has not been so bad

I updated last night too and was reluctant to post that the issue was fixed. I want to test for a couple of days before being sure.

I did notice that the issue was still there for me when I first rebooted after the install but I went into the find my iPhone settings and turned off the enable offline finding setting and the issue seems to have gone away. Not sure about battery life yet though

the location issue cleared up for a few days and last night and today it came back with a vengeance. my ipad does not have the issue at all, which is the weird part.

I bought a pair of air pod pros and every time I open the case my location is being tracked. I cannot find a way to remove the air pods from showing their location to my phone. very annoying. I deleted the pairing from my phone and the location issue became much less of an issue (it barely did it anymore), but as soon as i add them back the location tracking icon keeps popping up in my phone

Another round... iOS 13.2.3... bug still present.

I'm growing tired of it, seriously... Why can't they fix a (stupid?) bug like this that drains battery?

Only solution is to disable the localization... not very confortable.

Ok, finally we found the core of the problem.... a function Apple have build in without telling anyone that it's there for chip U1.

https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/12/05/apples-use-of-location-services-data-tied-to-uwb-management-federal-guidelines

I find absurd how we need that a "random" (non to desrespetc Brian Krebs, is just for saying) security researcher bring up the case at international level to have an answer that the users have been asking to Apple for quite some time.

Now they say in future they will add a flag to deactivate this UWB but in the meantime we are stuck with the problem, and they say it's perfectly normal.... if I were in the USA I'll have already started a class action.

Installed yesterday night iOS 13.2... seems to have somehow fixed the problem for now but I wouldn't put my hand on the fire. Anyone else have tryed the new update?

I did not have the issue with iOS 13.0 on my iPhone. It only appeared after the 13.1 update. I noticed in one of the weather apps that the setting could not be changed from “ask every time” or “only when using the app” to never. I would select “never” for location tracking and it would not accept it. I tried deleting the app but the issue persists.

If I open my wifi settings the location tracking icon appears every single time. If I quickly go to the privacy, system settings, I can see that there are solid grey icons next to almost all settings even though I have turned almost all of them off. The interesting thing (to me) is that if I toggle some of the settings from OFF to ON they will turn pink while others will not. For example, I only leave the EMERGENCY SOS, SHARE MY LOCATION, and FIND MY IPHONE settings On, and everything else is set to off. If I toggle the LOCATION BASED SUGGESTIONS, SYSTEM CUSTOMIZATION, and WIFI NETWORKING settings back on and off the pink pointer icon appears which would indicate to me that this setting is causing the device’s location to be tracked.

I have the 11pro max and I did not have any location tracking issues until yesterday when I updated to iOS 13.1.

Yesterday evening and all day today my phone kept showing me the location tracking icon in the status bar but the privacy settings do not show any apps actively tracking my location. I did a hard rest of my phone and set it up as new to see if the issue would go away. The issue seemed to have gone away for a bit but now every time I go into my settings to switch wifi networks the location tracking icon reappears (in my privacy settings I have the wifi location setting set to OFF).

Hopefully apple will fix this quickly

I installed it yesterday afternoon and the issue is still there for me too, along with other issues that I didn’t have with version 13.0.

Apple really did a poor job with the software so far.

I have an iPad that is running exact same software and apps and uses my same Apple ID and it does not have these issues. It is a wifi only, so it makes me think the issue is related to networking settings