. After upgrading it started a few minutes later, but now more often than before (my feeling). I've now turned Location Services off, but i've had the same behaviour as you described it- using WiFi and/or Data.Here we are dealing with two bugs: One is that location services arrow keeps popping up even we have things turned off and second is that even I have turned the status bar icon off, yet it keeps showing the arrow.Just wait for it
Possibly. Read post#55 where the user reported battery drain problem due to location services and apple engineers found the problem but no fix has been issued.
I’ve been trying to follow this. I have 3 iOS devices, 11 Pro Max, iPhone 7 and 3rd gen iPad Pro 12“ that exhibit the exact same behavior as far as the location services arrow. I haven’t found a bug or any related battery drainage. I have several weather apps, 3 third party ones as well as the Apple Weather app all set to Always. And a 3rd party Find Friends type app that is set to Always. In addition to several system features that are set to Always. those are the ones that i see are using or recently used location services. So I always see the location arrow go from the hollow geofencing status to the solid status. If I turned all the features off that I want I assume I wouldn’t see the arrow much but I want those features on and have not yet seen an issue because of them. Is it that you’re turning location services entirely off and it’s still appearing? I can’t imagine doing that but that could be a bug.
Even if all apps are disabled the phone still has to locate cell towers and service. I don’t think it’s possible to have a functioning phone and not have location services operate. If you pull the sim or cancel cellular service then it would probably be completely disabled. But I’ve never operated a device that way and wouldn’t want to. If you’re seeing some negative impact that is being directly caused by this I can understand. But none of our 5 devices are having an issue. That’s why I was trying to understand. But iOS 13 has been a source of many other issues.
Yes I’ve not seen any significant battery issues related to location services in years. Not since a traffic app, INRIX, used to hammer my battery when it used location continually and not in a geo fence manner. They corrected that years ago and I haven’t had any such issues since although I no longer use that app. That’s why I keep almost all my location services enabled.
This didn’t work for me. Set date/time to not set automatically and having same arrows the whole time
What you are experiencing may be a bug. Only you can decide that. However whenever you switch to Airplane Mode, cutting all radios off, and then cutting them back on will always result in location service arrow appearing. The fact that you said yours is disappearing for a time and then reappearing would imply that you have a lot of the systems set to never or toggled off as you’ve said. With my settings the arrow is always there but cycles between hollow to solid a couple times a minute which is completely normal, or at least is not causing any issues. Turning off location services does not affect the ability to make calls or texts. But whenever the phone is restarted or the radios turned off and on, Air Plane mode, the cell radio will always trigger location service to get the best connection. And those who use Waze or Google maps will always see the arrow.
