Find my IPhone constantly tracking on | iOS 14

OK, I get all that. You're still missing the point though.

"if Find My doesn’t use location services you can’t use it to locate your phone."

I understand that, but in iOS 13, it only turned tracking on when you opened the Find my iPhone app or logged into find my iPhone via web browser. It didn't turn on GPS tracking every time you unlocked your phone. Thats the point were trying to make.

the problem I’m encountering is that it is constantly being triggered draining my battery (only by Find my iPhone) and this only started with updating the software. does it make sense? apple admitted that was an issue and help me sort it but as soon as upgrade to the next iOS, started happening again and I re did everything they told me last time but there seems to be a glitch with the latest update

thanks for the ideas. i tried each of them, and even went as far as to just go ahead and reset the whole phone, to no avail. i don’t know if it’s the phone itself, the ios, or my brew of chosen apps i’ve installed, but within a half hour of restoring my backup, there it is. the cute little purple triangle. like an inverted pac-man eating my battery instead of power pellets

i’m just going to turn it off, keep vigilant about my backups, and hope my homeowners’ or car insurance covers my iphone as well as fenderbenders and broken pipes. i can’t be tethered to a power outlet half the day and a battery backup isn’t much better.

s’pose this is going to void my apple+ w/ theft, loss, and damage insurance. what a pain in the aspirin. i need an aspirin.

please post if you find a solution. and i s’pose i’ll keep at it as well. i hate not knowing the answer to this problem... Lee

you’re not seeing the whole issue here, i believe. location services is great. find my is great, too. they should both be on at all times. agreed. but there is no reason for find my to update a devices location every 3-5 minutes. and if it were necessary to do so, why doesn’t it do it on all devices? this is an issue that has arisen recently with the new ios, it’s frustrating, and it needs to be addressed. if you don’t have an idea on how to assist with the issue, kindly save your other advice for another thread, as it is a different topic, as far as i can see

Thanks for the support guys.

Gone are the days when customers used to be right. Apple support even declined to agree to our statement (issue), neither did bothered to ran diagnostic.

Hope some devop is listening to this forum and will fix the bug.

yes. i have a family share for backup storage and it set it up automatically or at least very little setup. i don’t recall. but i’ve seen both myself and other family members in find my while looking around in there

I have the exact same issue and it’s really frustrating. I don’t care about my privacy as much as I care about my battery life. I’m a 46 yo father of two. Trust me, my life isn’t that exciting. But I do care about having my phone last more than one day on a charge.

this is my first post on a their help blog. I’m hoping others that experience this bug will continue to post so that Apple realizes there are customers that are unhappy with their current experiences with their phone and with customer service.

i have a 256g mini iPhone that I purchased week of 4/7/2021

Yes, I already did post that Location Services doesn’t drain the battery significantly. How many times do you want to hear it? Do you think if you ask the same question over and over that you will get a different answer one time?

tylerfromwaynesville wrote:

Everyone let’s just realize this forum is no help whatsoever and there’s nothing we can do about apples ****** design. Case closed.

That’s only true if you obstinately refuse to understand Apple’s brilliant improvement of the already outstanding Find My feature that now works even if the phone doesn’t have an Internet connection.

You truly have ZERO concept of how Find My works. Find My does not query “everyone’s” location any times, let alone multiple times. It NEVER queries anyone’s location, let alone everyone’s. It identifies it’s OWN location using Location Services and saves that information for its own use. And that’s not just true for Find My. NO iPhone ever queries anyone’s location, with the exception of when you use Find My to locate an Apple device that you have been AUTHORIZED to track by the owner of that device.

This is why corporations like big telecom companies have implemented iPads and iPhone only devices because Apple is the safest place to have any data that has to be on another companies hardware instead of their own.

but I’m more concerned with my double tap of the space bar on my iPhone... lost that feature months ago and still not back.

I have this issue as well. Find My iPhone keeps using my GPS even though I'm not trying to find my iPhone via iCloud or any other app. In the past, I'd always keep Find My iPHone on so that if it is lost, I can find it. But the GPS arrow would never turn on to indicate that the GPS is being used by it. Now it turns on every few minutes. I've tried setting Find My iPhone to Never, to Only When Used, even Ask Next time...nothing helps.

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Apple developers don’t read this forum for suggestions. To make a request go to https://apple.com/feedback.

If you turn off Location Services then any apps that use location services won’t have anything to do, so they will naturally use less energy. But I leave Location Services on all the time, for dozens of apps, and my battery life is excellent. So if Location Services uses energy it isn’t much.

Are you using the phone for its useful features, or just to monitor the battery? If all you care about is battery life delete all 3rd party apps, delete all email accounts, and don’t use the phone. The battery will really last much longer. But with any battery powered device the more useful it is, the more energy it will require. A rule of thumb: Charge the phone overnight so it is at 100% in the morning. If it makes it to the end of the day without charging that is optimal use of the energy in the battery.

Yeah, I know they don't read forums for suggestions. I'm just putting my thoughts out there. The likelihood they'll implement it is unlikely anyway.

Just because a feature is useful, doesn't mean it can't be improved upon. If I'm using the phone, I know where it is, so I don't need it to be constantly polling my location for no reason.

If it makes it to the end of the day without charging that is optimal use of the energy in the battery.

Well, that entirely depends on how you use your phone. I'd say if the phone makes it to the end of the day with very light usage and ends up with 50% battery, it is not optimal. Hence the point of having battery statistics so you can check to see if there are any apps going rogue sending/receiving data and draining battery.

Nobody is turning off Find My so it will know where it is. I said it doesn't need to be constantly polling itself for no reason. And there already IS a feature that lets the iPhone know who is using it. It's called FaceID.

The phone is designed to operate for a day between charges. That is the design goal. If you expect it to last longer than that an iPhone is not for you. Get a phone that will last longer than a day. Except there are none. It’s an engineering tradeoff that all manufacturers make between battery capacity, which involves calculations of size, weight, how powerful the phone should be, its range for communications, and several other factors. Another alternative if you want it to last longer than a day is to add a case that contains a battery. This will make the phone heavier and bulkier, but it will last longer between charges for you without the added burden of the heavier weight and size that the rest of us don’t want.

Lol, I'm not even going to unpack this one. Have fun with your "solutions".