Find my IPhone constantly tracking on | iOS 14

You think that maintaining a connection to GPS doesnt use 'measurable energy'? You are trolling these comments, and you actually do not know what you are talking about. Its a shame you cant press a 'Unhelpful' button on coments.

Gouki_Master wrote:

You think that maintaining a connection to GPS doesnt use 'measurable energy'? You are trolling these comments, and you actually do not know what you are talking about. Its a shame you cant press a 'Unhelpful' button on coments.

And, as you are an expert you know this. What are your credentials for such a statement? I contend that one 10 minute cellular phone call uses more energy than GPS uses all day. Do you have any counterclaim?

Why, when I leave GPS on all day for multiple apps, is my phone’s battery life is outstanding? I am a heavy user, but my battery still lasts all day with some reserve (~20%) at the end of the day (after charging overnight) My wife’s phone is an even better example, because she hardly uses it except for occasional games. But she leaves GPS on continuously. She only has to charge every 3 or 4 days

I used to have a Garmin hiker’s GPS. It used 4 AA cells. It was on all the time. I had to change the batteries every couple of months. The fact is that GPS in any form uses very little energy.

Since you arent listening

to anyone here detail their own experiences and continue to act like the

stereotypical Apple fan, heres a published paper on the fact.

Greener and

Smarter Phones for Future Cities: Characterizing the Impact of GPS Signal

Strength on Power Consumption (core.ac.uk)

Now I dont really care if

you are not having the issue with your battery consumption being affected,

people here are; yet you seem like you're here just to troll. Read this paper

and understand that GPS does use power, and the fault here is that our handsets

are using GPS wildly increased in frequency and duration of searches.

And I working in mobile

communications as a new technology trainer for the third largest mobile

retailer in the UK from 2000 - 2009. But I'll let the paper inform you, if you

bother to read it.

Lastly, yes a dedicated

GPS which has a monochrome non-backlit screen without visual mapping and no

data connection where it is just receiving clock signals from satellites would

go on for a year easily on ordinary AA batteries. Thats not what a mobile phone

is though.

Toodleloo.

Simon

Since you aren’t listening, did you read the entire 5 year old paper? I did. Did you notice that it was using an Android device? Did you notice that the subject of the paper was GPS Signal-to-Noise ratio, and how it affects energy consumption. Did you notice that it compared indoor GPS signal strength vs Outdoor, and claimed that indoor was the primary cause of battery drain? Did you know that iPhones don’t use GPS signals indoors, they use a network map of Wi-Fi sources?

But now I would like you to answer one question. Go to Settings/Battery. How much energy does the Find My app and System Services use? Don’t you think this would be a good measure of how much energy Location Services uses?

So, no matter what you keep saying, there is no need to insult each other. it seems that out of pretty much everyone here, you are the only one who doesn’t co sided this a battery drainage.

i looked at my battery usage and funny enough, it doesn’t even show find my app, even when it shows other apps that I used for 1 min in the last ten days.

Anyways, Arrow is on fairly often, I did speak to apple, they offered a solution that didn’t work, my battery goes faster with the upgrade.. I’m glad you feel it doesn’t affect your battery, but it does affect the rest of us, so unless you have a solution (which you have proven you don’t) please don’t lecture us. Thanks

Assuming you are addressing me. I’m not out to insult anyone, and anyone is entitled to their own opinions, but not to their own facts. No one has presented any evidence that location services uses a lot of energy, just feelings. I have suggested several ways to demonstrate that location services does not use substantial energy, the latest one being how much energy Find My uses. It does not appear in the past 24 hours on my phone, but it does show 5 minutes in the past 10 days, with a total energy usage of under 1% (it shows “- -“, 10 spaces below the lowest 1% app in the list), thus demonstrating that its use is recorded by the battery monitor, and that its usage is very low.

While feelings count, Find My is one of the most advanced and valuable features of all Apple devices, and you should contrast your feelings against the real downside to disabling this feature. Yes, it’s useful if your phone is lost or stolen, but it can also be used by first responders to find you in an emergency, by your towing company if your car is disabled, to track your children if you are concerned about their welfare, or by police if you feel threatened.

Anyone is free to make a choice, but make it an educated choice.

How do you think Find My can work if it doesn’t know your location?

exactly

By any chance are you using the Find My app on your phone to track other people?

This is the solution!

Thanks.

@ceyhunyildiz

that is 100% my issue as well. The support folks here don’t seem to get it.

I understood perfectly. My other fear would be battery drainage, which apparently is insignificant.

Can you tell us if these constant accesses to the localization system by Find My iPhone really don't drain the battery significantly?

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

So are you saying that my explanation of how Find My works with iOS 14 is wrong? Really? And you know this, how?