iPhone 6 Motion Calibration Always Using Location Services

still doesn't work =l I've given up!

I see now that it didn't work for me either. I turned off "Motion Calibration".

No app uses the location for me yet and "motion calibration" is still active. I tried to reset location but this has changed anything. Except force me to reconfigure each app.

Same here, brand new iPhone 6, set up without backup.

I did the reset of location services/ without any luck. Calibration keeps going.

i Just wish we knew if this was a bug of some sort or supposed to be this way. the battery of my 6 seems to be draining relatively fast. I don't really do anything with it cause I'm still waiting for my SIM card, yet i can see the battery drop precents every few minutes..

Is it possible to a hardware problem on some iPhone 6 (motion captor) ?

I hope not! trouble is that this constant icon in the upper right makes me feel that it drains the battery unlikely fast. I can't really tell for sure though... I'm trying to use it for a day now without calibration on and will see what happens. One would have to really test this under a controlled environment.

Used my iPhone 6 Plus with Motion Calibration turned off for a couple of days and the battery life is soooo much better 🙂

It happened to my iPhone 6 + also. i restored it from my iPhone 5 backup.

It seems to be solved by simply just turn off location service and turn it back on again.

i don't see motion calibration using the GPS like before (for this 2 hours). i will update again if this fix is permanent or not.

iOS 8.1 don't solve the problem 😢

I think that Rinford might be right. I recently bought an iphone 6+, updated to ios 8.1 and experiencing same behaviour about motion calibration. I set up an appointment at genius bar for tomorrow evening, will report what genius will tell me. Anyway im not seening any excessive battery drain here...Motion calibration should be related to coprocessor M8,to the step counter and the barometer stuffs.

Same problem here. I just turned off motion calibration, spotlight suggestions and wifi networking. I don't know what these are and I also don't know i'm using these features. To save battery life I just turned it off. iPhone 6+ 128 GB, backed up from iPhone 5 iCloud.

I turned my motion calibration off and on again on my iPhone 6, then after a couple of minutes the location arrow symbol disappeared. I might try leaving it off for awhile soon and seeing if it affects the battery life.

UPDATE: i left the service always on and yesterday i noticed that motion calibration wasnt always active as usual. It activated randomly just for a cople of seconds. As i made an appointment with a genius here in Italy, i went to the apple store anyway, even if the problem seemed solved. I explained to him the situation and that the service used to be always on until the day before. He took the phone with him and went to a private room. He came back after 10 mins and told me that he checked some internal documents in order to answer me. In his opinion the phone runs perfectly, proven by the fact that he ran some diagnostics as well and everything was ok. He said that motion calibration is a service that provides compass functionality, barometer, step counter and stuffs like that. He didnt mention the coprocessor M8. I asked him what was the reason that made the service always on until the day before. He told me that he didnt know the answer to this question, maybe it was some app that required that kind of service. In the end i asked him to report this happening to the programmers and he answered that he will certanly do that. I went back home and after few hours i found out that the service was again still always on. As im writing here the service is still on. I dont know if the genius made a reset of the location services resetting motion calibration data as well, anyway im still of the opinion that this service generate a profile of the user based on few days pattern analisys. For sure there's no HW issue, it might be something software related. I hope that Apple will give more detailed info about it or optimize the service with an ios update.

I have the same problem with the Motion Calibration Arrow always on! The Italian customer service told tme o try some resetting, but they didn't fix the problem. Then they told me to reset the iPhone as new iPhone. Now my iPhone 6 has been reset yesterday as a new iPhone and the motion calibration arrow appears very rarely. But in this case I must install every old app one by one and I loose the data stored in the apps.

My theory:

The M8 coprocessor can count your steps.

But how does it know how far your average stride is?

So if the M8 counts 100 steps and the GPS says you've gone 100m then it can average your stride

So I think this Motion calibration is calibrating how far your strides are and how high your stairs are

Until it does that it's probably on a lot

People turn it off and it still counts your steps and guesses your distance

so my guess is it's temporary. This is conjecture though.