iPhone 6 Motion Calibration Always Using Location Services

I tried it already. Steps are still tracked....

I'm having the same problem. I Also set up from backup (which I must do). its always on and must be draining my battery.

You guys,

I dont understand why you guys are giving work arounds? We shouldn't have to have work arounds. This is a GA release of a software and apple should fix this. We pay a lot of money for these devices and we shouldn't have to deal with it.

Clearly the people in this thread are "tech savvy" because they know enough to enable the location indicator for "system services". 90% of Users do not even know about this because that option is disabled by default.

It has nothing to do with how you restore or setup as new phone. either

A) this is a bug which should be fixed

B) or this is normal and it does not consume battery like we think it does.

I can't believe that four days have gone by and nobody has an answer to your question but seem to want to find a work around. Smh.

There is no literature that exists about this function. Is there anyway to bring this thread to the attention of Apple?

I also noticed the location icon was always on (new iphone 6) anyway, I tried everything to find out what was tracking me (disabling every location tracker too make it turn off) and it was the "motion calibration" as well as "cell network search" once I switched those off, the icon turned off. Im pretty sure those are important functions so I'm hoping to find out more info soon as to what their exact purpose is and if an ios update will fix it. My battery has been draining constantly and even overnight.

I turned off the frequent locations tab found under privay--> location services --> system services --> frequent locations. Yes, it is buried deep in the menus. I still have on motion calibration and the location arrow finally disappeared. Not sure if it will effect the battery drain yet. Just turned it off.

Seems like reseting the location settings did the trick , wait and see ...

Next big thing for me will be to find out how to get rid of the wifi issues without having to reboot .

I Can confirm after following bournandel's advice that simply disabling and then re-enabling 'location services' button fixes this issue. My 6+ has been doing it all week, although I've still had tremendous battery life so I'm not sure it was really much of an issue.

Ok, so I might as well share my findings on this obscure matter:

The battery life on my new iPhone was terrible, I also restored from an iCloud backup from an iPhone 5 into a brand new iPhone 6. I also saw that Motion Calibration required Location Services ALL THE TIME. This caused that the Battery Usage statistics showed that the Idle time and the Usage time where always the same, meaning that the CPU never went to sleep.

So then I followed the advice shown here by @BanComicSans to reset Location Settings. This seems to have fixed the CPU-sleep problem, since Standby time and Idle time don't match anymore, but show a normal behaviour. However, the MotionCalibration is still always on and showing the StatusBar icon all the time as well, so I think this is also not an ideal solution.

Talked to an AppleCare representative about it, he opened ticket 670100397.

Let's see if this is fixed in a future iOS 8 release and let's see what we can find out about this.

EDIT: and when an AppleCare representative says to setup your phone as new, don't. This is an 700$+ device we just purchased and there's a service/feature called iCloud Backup that we're entitled to use. If this means that the backup borks the phone, then they should go and fix the backup service, it's not your fault.

I absolutely agree,

Most of the times we have issues with this or that, we are always asked to do reset or setup as new iphone

i had all the models since the V1, what would be the point to use a backup feature if it's not recommended to use it

with a new device ??

I am also sill having this issue even aftre resetting my location settings and such. This is ridiculous. Besides motion calibration being on all the time, I don't even know exactly what it does and can't find any information on it. I had to turn it off since its literally always on and draining my battery.

I have the same issue, destroying battery life. I've tried the suggested fixes but nothing works. I've switched it off. Anybody know what it does?

Same issue on my iphone 6, which I restored from an iPhone 5 backup. Let's hope apple fixes this issue in the next iOS update.

Hi Guys,

I had the same issue. However i just left it on and do nothing about it. (since there isn't any concrete solution other than switching it off)

After about a week of usage, the motion calibration is no longer always on. My guess is that they are programmed to gather information of user's one week of activity pattern. So if you keep resetting your location services privacy, the data collected will always be starting from day 0 and it will never be able to finish gathering the information required.

Anyway this is only my guess. It worked for me, hope it is the same for you.

Btw, my iPhone 6 is still running 8.0 so it is not the patch that solved it.