After reading your message, I went in to settings, general, background with fresh, and turned it back on. I then check each out to determine which ones will keep in location services on. The surprising one for me is dropbox. When I turned Dropbox off, location services disappeared from my status bar.
David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: [email protected] Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 Sent from my iPhone > On 17 Mar 2014, at 9:44, Katey Glass <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Good Afternoon All, > > I just wanted to let you know that this location services "bug" of staying on > constantly doesn't just effect us VoiceOver users. In fact, It hadn't > affected me (a VO user) but did affect my fiance who's not a VO user. > > I first went to Privacy> Location services (I turned on VO to do this BTW) > > I noticed that not only was FourSquare on, but it said it was currently using > his current location despite the fact it wasn't in his app switcher. So I > turned off the phone and back on and location services was still in the > status line. > > I did a hard boot, holding the power button & the home button to no avail. > > So I googled location services constantly running and found the following > forum > > https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5984935 > > There it told me to go to the following: > > You can either turn off background refresh of GPS altogether or turn off the > individual apps that use GPS all the time like google maps, Foursquare, or > Facebook. They will still be able to use GPS when you open them, but will not > keep the GPS running in the background when the app is closed. > For some reason, after I updated to 7.1, this was activated and had all the > apps updating in the background even when they were closed. > > Now I have no problems. GPS and location services only open when I open the > associated app. > > This seems to fix it, I turned off FourSquare as directed above and suddenly > the location services icon only shows up when FourSquare is launched as it > does on my phone, but when FS is taken out of the app switcher the location > Services goes off in the status line. > > Both my fiance and I have iPhone 5s and are both running iOS 7.1. > > I hope this helps someone out there. > > Katey > > Sent from my iPad > >> On Mar 16, 2014, at 3:56 PM, David Chittenden <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> No, any app that is running in the foreground which needs location services, >> automatically turns on GPS. This just keeps apps from monitoring when they >> are not open in the foreground. >> >> David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA >> Email: [email protected] >> Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 >> Sent from my iPhone >> >>> On 17 Mar 2014, at 8:44, "Andy Baracco" <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> But if you do this, won't that render any app that needs location services, >>> such as a GPS app useless? >>> >>> Andy >>> >>> >>> -----Original Message----- From: David Chittenden >>> Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2014 11:04 AM >>> To: [email protected] >>> Subject: Re: Battery draining >>> >>> The only way I am able to get location services to disappear from the >>> status bar is to completely disable background app refresh. I attempted it >>> again last night with the same result after a reboot and a warm reset. >>> >>> Go to settings, general, background app refresh. >>> >>> Again, this appears to only affect VO users, so expect it to take more time >>> before the error is resolved. Apple only rushes fixes for critical >>> situations that affect significant numbers of users, and VO users are less >>> than 1% of the user base. Every email to >>> [email protected] >>> helps because more emails about the same issue means they know more people >>> have the problem, so they will increase the resources directed toward >>> fixing the problem. >>> >>> As for those who complain that Apple should fix it now, please remember >>> back to the wonderful days of the extremely expensive specialised >>> note-taker. It usually took the manufacturer between six months and a year >>> between updates, and we always had to live with the problem until then, if >>> the problem was even fixed. Oh, and let's not forget, some devices could >>> not be upgraded without sending them back to the manufacturer. Finally, the >>> annual upgrade fee was usually rather significant. >>> >>> David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA >>> Email: [email protected] >>> Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> >>>> On 17 Mar 2014, at 1:53, Eileen Misrahi <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi David, >>>> >>>> The battery draining problem is getting worse, so yesterday evening before >>>> going out I charged the phone as much as I could and timed the drainage. >>>> It dropped 35% in a 3 1/2 hour period of time. Hence, I will place my >>>> complaint to Apple accessibility. The phone was completely drained and >>>> dead as a doorknob when I just got up. Where can I find the background >>>> refresh to turn that off? I didn't totally turn off location services, but >>>> turned it off in apps that I didn't need to have it on. What else do I >>>> need to do to save on battery? Thanks. >>>> >>>> Best, >>>> Eileen >>>>> On Mar 16, 2014, at 4:16 AM, David Chittenden <[email protected]> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I turned off all background refresh. It looks like location services gets >>>>> switched on. This causes 15-20% battery drain per hour, and the GPS >>>>> antenna is the only thing that is this power demanding. >>>>> >>>>> Also, it looks as though this is only happening to people running VO. >>>>> None of my sighted friends are having the battery drain problem. >>>>> >>>>> So, turn off background app refresh. Also, very regularly close apps from >>>>> the app switcher. Finally, email accessibility so they will hopefully >>>>> soon test this and find the problem. >>>>> >>>>> One thing we do know, Apple does repair these sorts of problems when they >>>>> figure out what is going on. Unfortunately, they usually don't role out >>>>> an update when the problem is only with VO, so we will most likely be >>>>> waiting a few months before the problem is resolved. >>>>> >>>>> David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA >>>>> Email: [email protected] >>>>> Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 >>>>> Sent from my iPhone >>>>> >>>>>> On 16 Mar 2014, at 17:10, david gross <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Sent from my iPhone >>>>>> I am using an iPhone for S. I wrote previously while I'm Wi-Fi and >>>>>> streaming radio I am using 16% battery per hour. I called Apple tonight >>>>>> they have me doing iCloud restore. It made it worse I'm now using 20% >>>>>> per hour. I am curious what other folks are finding in a similar >>>>>> situation. Apple is suggesting a new restore from the computer. I do not >>>>>> want to do this. 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