iOS 14.3 x Find My iPhone

[ghislane]

10 days since my last update, still behaves very oddly. It might be controlled via server side?

When I'm at home under the same Wifi network, it will do it only every now and then. If I'm out and about on 4G, its back to the crap behaviour of coming on almost on every unlock.

 

[secretanchitman]

10 days since my last update, still behaves very oddly. It might be controlled via server side?

When I'm at home under the same Wifi network, it will do it only every now and then. If I'm out and about on 4G, its back to the crap behaviour of coming on almost on every unlock.

Yep same here. At home it's not too bad but outside of my house, it's almost constant when I unlock the phone!

 

[Juans]

Has anyone reported this problem to apple?

 

[umzyi]

Has anyone reported this problem to apple?

Yes, submitted a report on feedback site and have received a reply from apple saying:
Investigation complete - works as currently designed.

 

[ghislane]

Believe I've got to the bottom of it. It seems to be something related to WIFI. For those that are still worried about this, try the following:

- When on WIFI (e.g. at home), you should only notice it kicking in every now and then. Maybe 1 in 5-10 unlocks (would class this as normal).

- When outside on LTE (With WIFI setting left on, aka not connected and scanning). Location services will almost trigger on every unlock and for long periods as well.

- On LTE, switch off WIFI from settings. It will search for location once or twice, after that it will be steady similar to on WIFI behaviour.

The above seems to be true for me and is completely manageable, also throughout this whole time there hasn't been a meaningful hit on battery at all. Still can pull 1hour of screen on time per 10% of battery on the 11 pro max which is completely normal.

 

[C DM]

Believe I've got to the bottom of it. It seems to be something related to WIFI. For those that are still worried about this, try the following:

- When on WIFI (e.g. at home), you should only notice it kicking in every now and then. Maybe 1 in 5-10 unlocks (would class this as normal).

- When outside on LTE (With WIFI setting left on, aka not connected and scanning). Location services will almost trigger on every unlock and for long periods as well.

- On LTE, switch off WIFI from settings. It will search for location once or twice, after that it will be steady similar to on WIFI behaviour.

The above seems to be true for me and is completely manageable, also throughout this whole time there hasn't been a meaningful hit on battery at all. Still can pull 1hour of screen on time per 10% of battery on the 11 pro max which is completely normal.

In either scenario it's something that is happening in iOS 14.3 much more frequently than before.

 

[Juans]

Has anyone tried it with ios 14.4 beta 2?

 

[BR4DOKYBrazil]

I still have my Find My iPhone disabled, but now in iPhone 12 Pro Max.

 

[Juans]

iOS 14 is out, if anyone has any update about, please let us know 😉

 

[BR4DOKYBrazil]

Same issue on 14.4.

 

[BR4DOKYBrazil]

I had to disable it again. Apple, in its past, fixed bugs much faster. It currently takes months to fix a simple bug and creates others when it happens.

 

[umzyi]

This is feature now and working as expected, according to Apple on bug reporter system. We’ll have to live with it.

 

[BR4DOKYBrazil]

This is feature now and working as expected, according to Apple on bug reporter system. We’ll have to live with it.

But before, this option didn't work that way.

 

[umzyi]

But before, this option didn't work that way.

Yes, they changed something and calling it working as expected now without any explanation.

 

[Juans]

Has anyone tried to reset location and privacy? (Settings - general - reset - reset location and privacy)

 

[BR4DOKYBrazil]

Has anyone tried to reset location and privacy? (Settings - general - reset - reset location and privacy)

I didn't try this

Are u going to try?

 

[Juans]

I didn't try this

Are u going to try?

No, because I'm still on 14.2

 

[Juans]

Has anyone else tried ios 14.4 or tried to reset location and privacy?

 

[shadyman]

Has anyone else tried ios 14.4 or tried to reset location and privacy?

Yes, didn’t help unfortunately

 

[BR4DOKYBrazil]

And here we will wait another 2 months for this to be fixed. Just as it took a long time to add an option to turn off the U1 chip tracing.

 

[Juans]

I'm thinking about doing this update anyway, since it solves important security holes. Is the battery affected so much with the GPS active for FMIP?

 

[Juans]

This morning I went to a crowded place after a long time (due to covid) and I encountered this problem, only I still have 14.2. I believe at this point that it is a server-side activated feature that is accentuated when there are more iPhones nearby and it’s not a problem caused by an ios version. This also explains why many people experience this problem more when they are away from home

 

[Juans]

Forget it, I just updated to ios 14.4 and now the gps activates very often apparently with no reason, even at home with wifi (among other things it activates every time it connect to wifi). So it's not only server side update, but ios works this way too. I think apple should improve it a little bit

 

[BR4DOKYBrazil]

GPS really keeps accessing constantly and without a specific rule. I'm strange about the delay in solving this and the small number of people who noticed this weird operation of Find My iPhone.

 

[Juans]

As someone has already written, when you are out and not connected to wifi but with the wifi search activated, the gps always accesses, if you turn off the wifi it happens much less