I get some of those notifications to, particularly mail and Facebook. I always assumed that was some kind of function having to do with the notifications set in the notification Center. But who knows? Mary
Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 10, 2016, at 10:01 AM, M. Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello Mary, > > I am confident that disabling the Background App Refresh service is the > solution to your problem to the extent that the location services icon will > no longer be displayed in your status bar when an app is not actively using > it. > > The funny thing is that even when the Background App Refresh service is > disabled, many apps continue to run in the background, even when not in the > app switcher. For example, I continue to receive notifications from the > Facebook app, the Twitter app, the native mail app, my banking apps, and > several other popular third-party apps. > > Mark > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Mary Otten > Sent: Friday, June 10, 2016 9:21 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: How to tell what is using your location services > > Hi Gordon, > Oh, I am not saying that the problem has been solved. I was just able to find > the setting that Mark was talking about, and discovered that I had not turned > it off. So I did so. Now, if over the next several days, I don't see that > location services thing in my status bar, I will have to suppose that it did > indeed solve the problem. The question as to why is still a Mistry, since the > app switcher is empty when that location services thing shows up. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jun 10, 2016, at 4:39 AM, Gordan Radić <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, Mary! > I'm glad you solved the problem but it's still pretty unlogical to me. > If I recall correctly, you said you've been noticing Location Services icon > even when the apps which use Location Services was completely turned off from > the App Switcher. > The setting you just disabled is relevant to the apps still beeing in the > background, meaning beeing available through the App Switcher allowing them > to refresh or not refresh while there and should not have any impact to > completely turned off apps. > Again, I'm glad it works for you but I suspect something else is goin on > there. > S poštovanjem > Gordan Radić > <nemoviz_animated.gif> > > <email.png> > <facebook.png> > <twitter.png> > 10.6.2016. u 0:10, Mary Otten je napisao/la: > Thank you again, Mark. I had not turn background refresh off. I have not done > so, and I want to put in a plug here for the search box in the settings app. > I don't know how long it would've taken me to actually find that setting. But > the settings search thing did it right away. > Mary > > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jun 9, 2016, at 10:48 AM, M. Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello Mary, > > You know, you raise an interesting subject that has been in the back of my > mind for quite some time but in the reverse, in my case. When I look at my > friends' phones, I very often see the location service indicator in their > status bar even when, like you, a location based app is not being used. > > However, although I use many of the same apps as they, and doubtless > countless others, I never, and I do mean, never, see the location services > indicator in my phone's status bar when those apps are either closed or not > tracking my location. > > The only thing that I can contribute to this is that I have disabled the > Background App Refresh service, on my phone. > > Mark > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Mary Otten > Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2016 7:32 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: How to tell what is using your location services > > Often enough to be irritating, I noticed that location services are on, when > I don't have any app open or in the app switcher that has been authorized to > use them, such as a Weather app, the GPS app, etc. I have a lot of apps that > are not authorized to use location services. I have other apps that are > specifically authorized to use location services only when they're open and > being used. And then there are those irritating ones that don't give you that > choice, they say always or never. I don't like that, and I do have a GPS app > and only offers that choice. I'm very careful to close the app out completely > so that it's not running in the background sucking down location service > battery usage but often, particularly in the morning, when I wake up my phone > and take it out of airplane mode, I find that location services are on. > Sometimes, just locking the screen and unlocking it is enough to make the > location services tracking notice go away. But other times, it is not. Once, > the only wa > y I was able to get rid of it was to reboot the phone. 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