Phone Sharing Location Without Permission?
I’m part of a family group but have never shared my location within it, or with anyone at all, even though family locations are shared with me. I have an iPhone 13 and recently upgraded from the last iOS 16 directly to 17.2.1. Since I did, when I got into Privacy>Location Services, occasionally below Share Your Location is the message “This iPhone is being used for location sharing.”
I already had Find My turned off, location sharing turned off, and those items disabled in system services for location use. My phone isn’t even the device listed for sharing if I were to share, my iPad is (all setting for location are the same on it). I have it locked down every way that’s an option to prevent location sharing. Only a select few apps have location services on, and those are only for when I’m using the app. This has happened even with location services off entirely as well.
It only shows the message on occasion if I go into the settings to look, and it goes away immediately if I close the settings app or go back to the main Privacy & Security menu. If I tap on Share My Location when the message is there, it says none of the names in the group can see my location.
If I open Find My on my iPad, it shows me as not sharing my location when the sharing message shows up in settings on my phone.
Has anyone else experienced this, and have you been able to figure out what might trigger it? Someone else in the family group opening Find My? Has anyone been able to actually see your location if that’s happened? I’d just ask someone else in my group but it was a point of contention that I chose not to share my location, so I’d rather not bring it up.