Location services are used by much more than just GPS. As mentioned before, if you use Uber, Lyft or another taxi requesting service, they need your location; if you like TuneIn Radio or iHeart Radio, and want stations from your area to show up, that uses location services; if you download an app for the nearest bus stop or transit location (such as an airport), that uses your location; and the list goes on. In my experience, many apps ask for your location but they don't all really need your location. Often when they ask for your location they will say something like, "Please allow (this app) to use your location while you are using the app." If you choose allow, then your location is used only when the app or one of its features has focus. If however, the message about allow the app to use your location says "... even if you are not using the app," then I would advise great caution, since if you choose allow then that will drain your battery over time with the location being used in the background, especially if there are several aps always using your location. You can go into the location services area of privacy settings, and control whether an app has no access (never) while using the app, or always has access to your location. Some apps do not offer the while using option, and these I personally set to Never, unless I have an extremely good reasonf or wanting that app to always have my location. In short, I wouldn't turn off location services for everything by default, since I want to get severe weather alerts from Dark Sky, tornado alerts from the Tornado app, and other critical information such as that. But, I don't need one or more apps using my location when I am not actually using the app.
Hope that makes sense, Wayne On 7/23/15, 'RobH.' via VIPhone <[email protected]> wrote: > I turned it off to all but the most obvious, like the gps apps, and then > set it to only be on on demand so to speak, not all the > time. I certainly took out adware that wants to send you location-targetted > ads, and various stuff like that. You have to go > through location services settings quite thoroughly. Siri, Weather, and > GPS, maybe the find my iPhone thing; and that's it. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Daniel McGee" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2015 6:14 PM > Subject: What are the benefits of having location services turned on? > > > Hi all, besides the Obvious of using GPS services. I.E. Doodle maps or even > apple maps. What du you gain from having location > services turned on? The reason I ask, is because if there's nothing else I > can gain from it, I'm thinking of switching it off > because I don't really use GPS apps all that much. > > Look forward to hearing what else you use location services for. > > Thanks > > Daniel > > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. > All new members to the this list are moderated by > default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this > list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, > please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the > list itself. The archives for this list can be searched > at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. > All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any > questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a > member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators > directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list > can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Follow me on Twitter at: www.twitter.com/wcmerritt My websites: www.wayneism.com www.whitecaneday.org -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
