iOS 15 iPhone 12 Pro - Location Services hollow arrow indicator always on in Status Bar

I am facing the exact same issue on my iPhone XR.

It's quite annoying that the location arrow is on almost all data which is also negatively affecting the battery life.

What is the solution to this problem???

Just updated to IOS 15.0.2 and I always have the hollow location sign-on! I have disabled almost all the services in my privacy settings except for FIND MY PHONE. This is draining the battery a lot? how to solve it? thanks

I have an iphone 12Pro as well, and i have observed the same thing. i've adjusted my privacy settings to the bare minimum, but find my iphone is killing my battery life. As a test i disabled find my iphone and my battery life was much better. i also have airtags, is this related and causing findmy to run constantly? apple, will this be addressed in ios 15.1?

The same thing is happening here, hopefully, the next update will fix this because my battery can not last from morning till night now anymore! It sucks pretty bad! I don't want to disable "find my phone," it is useful! I have contacted support and told me they have reported the issue!

Same here, just updated two iPads and hollow icon is always on due to find my. The strange thing is that it is ALWAYS on, even in airplane mode. Bug or what else? It disappears only if I turn off Find my iPad from privacy setting. Sometimes the icon turn from hollow to “full” when I open apps, with no reason, and turn hollow again after a while or closing the app.

How did you do it?

On your iPhone / Mac / Pc?

I am asking because I tried it from my iPhone, afterwards I entered my passcode which then disabled lost mode, but the hallow arrow is still there. So maybe I’m doing something wrong.

iOS 15.1

Have the same issue since updating to IOS 15. I actually waited a while and just up updated so it's really IOS 15.1. Within the last 2 days, my Iphone SE (2020/2nd Gen) has had a constant, hollow, grey arrow related to location services with "find my iphone" under system services. In past, this never happened except briefly when it was updating. I have tried everything I can think of and even reset the "location and privacy" back to factory. It didn't make it go away. I know it is draining battery and in the last 2 days my battery life has gone from 90% to 86%!!! This isn't normal and it happened once before on an older phone model and only thing that seemingly fixed it was a new release of IOS version and it just stopped. I'm not sure my battery can wait that long if it continues. An alternative is to turn off "find my iphone" and it goes away then. That, of course, defeats the purpose of having it as no one expects to lose their phone so having it on is the preferred option. Anyone else have any suggestions or success with a fix? Has anyone called Apple? I know they often do not admit there are issues, but obviously something isn't right!

Thanks!

I have the exact same issue since updating to iOS 15. Only difference is that I am on an iPhone 11.

I have a similar if not the same issue on my iphone 11. I see the arrow despite having the Status Bar Icon setting turned off.

Find My will periodically update iCloud with the location of your phone.

As mentioned earlier, the location symbol for Find My iPhone in System Services has been on 100% of the time since updating to IOS 15, not periodically.

I have the same problem with my iPhone 12 but I don't think it is necessarily draining the battery, but the icon in the past has always disappeared when it was done using that quick location setting.

I too faced the same issue and also noticed that the hollow arrow disappears when I put my iPhone in lost mode and stopped it. But you have to do it every time when iPhone restarts.

Has anyone figured out if this is normal yet? Mine also always has a arrow even if I turn location off completely 🤦‍♀️