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Re:A popular Bluetooth car battery monitor that siphons up a... by jjav on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @02:06AM (#36489411)
Something I experienced recently on Android was an app that every few hours kept popping up an alert saying something like "App X wants location data, so it has turned location on".

How is that even possible? I know apps can request location data to be turned on, but I was surprised the app can unilaterally turn it on. I couldn't find any way to prevent that.

These are the kinds of reasons why I can't trust any phones at all.

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Re:A popular Bluetooth car battery monitor that siphons up a... by theshrike79 on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @03:08AM (#36489788)
Android phones.

There is no way for an iOS application to just say "turn on GPS" and be granted granular location access without user intervention.

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Re:A popular Bluetooth car battery monitor that siphons up a... by anticrymactic on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @05:18AM (#36490656)
> There is no way for an iOS application to just say "turn on GPS" and be granted granular location access without user intervention.

Damn. Just like on Android.

The permission to always have location access(while closed) exists. Important for apps like Find My, etc.

But that has to be manually enabled per App in the settings. Apps can't even prompt for it, the location permission dialog only lets you allow usage while in the foreground. Also everytime your location is used in the background you get notified about it. So yeah, op either uses outdated android or enabled it manually.

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