Find my IPhone constantly tracking on | iOS 14

My iPhone 11 Pro is constantly tracking my location for the Find My Iphone feature. It's the only setting that I have on and the only one that shows the purple sign, i.e, it's been used. It's like every 5 or 10 minutes, every time I see my phone, the arrow is there looking for my location.


Im on 14.3, clean update and I have been using iOS for 8 years. I have never had this problem, I have tried everything that I read online but this seems to be a bug, pretty annoying since it drains my battery much faster.


Any help would be appreciated.


Thanks!

iPhone 11 Pro, iOS 14

Posted on Dec 28, 2020 10:47 AM

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Posted on Feb 10, 2021 12:37 AM

I reported this issue numerous and I’m in numerous times to Apple support ever since iOS 14 was implementing my phone started doing the exact same thing Apple’s response is “ thanks for reporting the issue at hand and it is are finding that the find my iPhone feature is using location services as designed and there is no issue“.

Bull honky I say my phone never use location services or popped up the little purple icon in regards to the find my iPhone feature in iOS versions prior to 14 except for when the phone was turned on and when the battery got critically low other than that the find my iPhone service did not use GPS in between those times after iOS 14 the find my iPhone pops up the purple GPS and use in the status bar symbol every 3 to 6 minutes it’ll pop on stay on for about 30 seconds and then disappear 3 to 6 minutes later again with the indicator showing that GPS is in use and always it shows that the only thing that had you recently used location services was the find my iPhone feature. After Apple tells me that that defined my iPhone feature is functioning and using GPS as it should and it’s designed I resorted to turning off of the location services for the find my iPhone feature due to excessive battery drain and increasing privacy concerns that there is no reason for find my iPhone to need my location every three minutes just. That service should not need location data unless called for by me trying to locate my phone or for the storing of the last known location when the battery gets asked dreamily low just in case the phone is lost when the battery’s dead all times in between there’s no reason for that service to be collecting my location data every three or four minutes especially considering I have all sharing of my location turned off.

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Dec 30, 2020 3:20 PM in response to ajoserc

Hi there, ajoserc.


It appears that Find My iPhone keeps tracking your location which is draining the battery of your iPhone 11 Pro. You see the icon every 5 to 10 mins, and we're glad to help with this.


Turn Location Services and GPS on or off on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - Apple Support -- Go to Settings > Privacy > Location, and set Find My to Never, then restart your iPhone. Once it's back to the Home screen, set Find My to While Using and test the issue.


Get Support -- If Find My is still tracking, please contact Apple Support. Choose Device Performance > App doesn't work as expected to start the conversation.


All the best.

Feb 11, 2021 11:31 AM in response to SnickZ.

@SnickZ


I followed the instructions and also tried turning off “Find my” app for gps & reset network settings.


On contacting support, they suggest to turn OFF the Find my iPhone feature in order not use GPS (even when you are not tracking your phone from iCloud).


I am disappointed to hear the solution to this bug. So if my car makes noise, I should turn off the engine O_O


iPhone 12 pro max



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