Apparently updating 13.1 on phone did not fix the privacy location issue. Anyone else???
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.
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.
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
I did install this latest 13.2 update and it has corrected the privacy issues and a few other annoying bugs. Wonder how long it will last. BUT NOW - the battery drain is far worse than before. As much as I’m glad for a fix with these lingering problems, it’s just awful that Apple sacrifices battery life in order to achieve these fixes.
It seems that some bugs are still not entirely fixed: Fix one issue within a certain feature and then it creates other options unusable.
Still much needs to be done by Apple to get things running better.
Hopefully, your battery doesn’t become an issue. I had a new battery installed several months ago and still has much life left, no reason for this drainage issue other than another bug to deal with.
Battery drain could be the phone re indexing everything. I would give it a full day and then restart the phone and judge from there. The 13.1.3 update effected my battery for the first day, noticeably, but after the first full day battery became much better (using iPhone 11)
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.
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.
iPhone 11 Pro
Installed iOS 13.1.3 this morgin.. took 1 hour and a half (!?), resetted privacy options before updating to be sure.
Annnnnd...... Nope... the bug is STILL there. :(
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?
Let's see in a few days, I sure hope battery is not affected, one of the real plus of 11 Pro series is the better battery life.
Thank you, I had thought the same.. Give it a little time. Also, I do need to stay off my device for a while longer to provide that opportunity.
Unfortunately today the Gps icon appeared again.... 😑
Have 13.2. Problem still present
I’m not allowed to say anything else per apple
IOS 13.1 iPhone - privacy location bug NOT fixed.
