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Apparently updating 13.1 on phone did not fix the privacy location issue. Anyone else???
As frustrating a time this has been for many of us, I imagine it is especially irritating for folks like yourself, who’ve purchased new devices.
Unfortunately, calling or visiting Apple support is truly useless. Sadly.
Thanks for the update. One of (the many issues) has to do with the fact, that since updating to IOS 13, is the location access permission has been changed. Certain apps default to “Ask Next Time” and will not allow it to be changed. Other app’s remained in the same settings I had chosen prior to IOS 13. From everything I’ve read about this particular problem, is that it is not the application(s) itself, but a bug within IOS 13 and that the recent 13.1 update was suppose to fix this and it has not. At least not on my phone 6s Plus.
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
It would seem that Apple still has some bug issue to resolve. This particular one, is critical. I’m sure you feel the same, especially with a brand new device. And as things go.. it may not be affecting all devices out there.
Let’s just hope that Apple will act quickly to resolve this, regardless of how many people are affected.
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
Congrats on your new device. 😊
Let’s hope Apple will fix these issues quickly. My guess is we’ll be at 13.2 or 3/4 within a month.
Aside from these issue, it seems that this latest IOS version is rather good - overall. Especially, on my 6s plus.
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.
It would still help to know, if anyone else is having this particular problem after updating 13.1 so that I can determine whether it is only affecting my device or is it randomly affecting certain people on various devices.
Thanks for all of your replies, much appreciated.
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 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
I agree. Apple did a rather sloppy job of this.
Feels like an Android operation, 😐
Regardless, Apple overall, is by far superior in hardware and software. And how responsive they are in trying to remedy problematic situations. My guess is that they will be doing fixes in small spurts. Hopefully, it won’t take too long.
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
Thanks for sharing. Still the same for me. Along with some other buggy issues that hadn’t been a problem before, but since the 13.1.2 update, these other problems have surfaced.
Let’s hope the next round of update(s) will fix the privacy problem, and everything else.
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
That’s good! However, for me, it hadn’t fixed this issue. In fact, now my battery is draining so much faster with this latest update. Battery was doing well on 13.1.2
It’s awful, that with every update since 13 roll out, each update has created additional problems, for me and I’m certain for many.
Waiting patiently, in the meantime.
IOS 13.1 iPhone - privacy location bug NOT fixed.
