iPhone keeps asking me if I want to allow location services for apps

I finally have an answer!

“if you know you want an app to always have access to your whereabouts, go to Settings > Privacy > Location Services and tap the app's name to whitelist it.”

Via this article:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnet.com/google-amp/news/ios-13s-new-privacy-features-help-keep-your-location-a-secret/

This is more arguably more sinister, Apple are trying to stop app developers - eg facebook from having your location, so only Apple and their associates can reliably offer certain location based services. Apple have changed the location permissions so not only does it repeatedly ask the user as, but also the app can no longer directly request location permission after you have said 'no' once (which would eventually happen by accident when they keep asking!). Once you have said no, you have to manually go and find the app in the settings and find location permissions and change them (previously an app could prompt when you try and use the app).

With regards to battery life, there are 6 levels of background location, with the lowest 2 not using any additional battery at all - this is because they only get the location when another service or move to a another cell tower prompts it. These low levels of back ground location are very useful for apps to update their content or service offerings to make them more relevant.

The prompt will come up periodically as a reminder. There is no way to stop it, and you shouldn’t because some day it will notify you of an app that you had forgotten is tracking you. It is an added security feature of iOS 13.

Sometimes Google IS your friend.

Here’s what to do:

Go to

-Privacy

-Location Services

-Location Alerts

Uncheck “Show Map in Location Alerts”

You’ll never get another annoying message again.

Tell Apple what you want. We are all users on this forum so you're not asking Apple anything and we can do nothing.

You can provide feedback via this link --> Feedback - iPhone - Apple

Seriously! Please fix this. I mean, you give us the option to “Always Allow”. Always means freakin ALWAYS!

You are not speaking with Apple Support here. This is a volunteer run community where we answer technical support questions when we can. It would seem nobody here has an answer for this issue.

https://support.apple.com/contact

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This really makes me mad that this change was made. I use location services for my elderly mom that has dementia. I have several apps I use to track her whereabouts. One is Life360; it lets me know when she’s left and arrives her home. I just discovered that she had turned off her location settings. She has no idea how to change any settings On her phone and she wouldn’t even try to change her settings. This question popped up and she turned off because she didn’t understand the question. It’s so hard to explain to her how to change her settings in her phone when she’s messed them up as I am 3 hours away from her.

I have the exact same problem with the incessant location permission pop ups. I grant access to a couple key apps including google maps and my weather app. Yes I definitely ALWAYS want those apps to know my location. So why does Apple constantly ask me? It’s way worse than an ad. Yesterday it popped up on my screen as I was navigating insane traffic through NYC on roads I was unfamiliar with and had to pay super close attention. Very dangerous.

This is driving me crazy.

If I select, “Always Allow” then that means ALWAYS allow. That does not mean allow for X days. That does not mean allow until I am in a different city. That does not mean allow until I am on a different WiFi connection. It means ALWAYS allow, as in allow until I delete the app or go in and manually remove the permissions. I cannot fathom why that isn’t a universally understood concept. I cannot fathom why Apple is bombarding me with pop ups every day for apps that I have given permanent permissions to a dozen times over.

If anyone has a way to stop this nonsense, then please please please share it. In the mean time I will submit feedback to Apple directly.

Thanks for asking EVERY DAY if I want GOOGLE MAPS to access my location Apple!!!!!!!!!!

So nice of you to put this giant popup message every day so I can contemplate finally switching to Android where this hostile garbage can at least be disabled.

gllen2 wrote:

so weird that I’m not relentlessly prompted about apple apps that use my location... hmmm

Apple apps do not share your location with anyone other than you and people you authorize. Other apps can share your location with anyone they want to (as long as they say they do in their privacy statement), and most do. So there is no security risk with Apple apps. There is very substantial risk with other apps. The New York Times recently did an in-depth investigation, and found that using even approved apps makes it possible for anyone or any company to generate a complete map of where you have been over time, frequently minute by minute.

You can read about this here—>https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/12/10/business/location-data-privacy-apps.html

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Asked 21 days ago and still no response! 🤔