[rubbingalcohol]

> “It is expected behavior that the Location Services icon appears in the status bar when Location Services is enabled. The icon appears for system services that do not have a switch in Settings.”

My question then is WHY? If they allow granular control over some location collection settings, but not others, and the only way to disable background collection is to turn location off entirely, then doesn't this defeat the purpose of offering granular control at all? What possible reason could there be for having it set up this way?

In my ideal scenario, Maps would have location access when open or navigating but nothing else.

[DangerousPie]

Your use case may be different but personally I just want to make sure that untrustworthy third party apps (Facebook, random games, etc) don't get location access. I'm fine with Apple services having access. So for me the way it is right now does everything I need.

[soperj]

> I'm fine with Apple services having access.

Why?

[rubbingalcohol]

Still doesn't answer why some Apple services have granular control and others don't. The implication in offering the controls is that you could control how the phone uses location data. Excluding some services from the controls negates the value of having controls at all.