OT: Smartphone location

23 comments

• Musterd21

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  6 years ago

  Get an old flip phone!
• Papi_Chulo

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  6 years ago

  ^ thanks - that's a hell of a solution - IDK why I didn't think of that - I assume you work for customer service
• aham5

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  6 years ago

  Use fake GPS app when at the club
• trickystick

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  6 years ago

  It's probably the Uber app. I stopped using it a year ago because it tracks your location even when you aren't in the app. Lyft doesn't.
• georgmicrodong

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  6 years ago

  You should be able to turn location services off globally and then prevent apps from turning it back on. At least on iPhone.
  
  I don’t know about android.
• TFP

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  6 years ago

  You can do it on Android also. If it really is Uber that keeps turning it on, go into the apps under settings. You can edit the permissions of each app. Just turn off location permissions for the uber app. Of course you'll have to turn it back on when you actually use that app.
• Papi_Chulo

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  6 years ago

  You guys are badasses
  
  Have an Android - clicking on the location setting opens a location screen with various location settings/options one of them called "App level permissions" - clicking on "App level permissions" showed which apps had location enabled by default - didn't see a global setting although there can be one somewhere so just went ahead an turned off one by one all the apps that had location on by default - can't recall all the ones that had it but the following I think had location on by default:
  
  + camera app (IDK why)
  + Chrome
  + Google
  + Maps
  + Lyft
  + Uber
  
  IDK which one was the offending app or if it was multiple apps - I guess I can check one by one but rather leave them all off for now and then just turn on location when I need it.
  
  Gracias amigos
  
• woodstock

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  6 years ago

  Papi, camera app has location permissions so that photos can be geolocation-tagged automagically. I've stopped using Uber completely and rely on Lyft instead, unless I'm in Austin, when I use Ride Austin.
• Papi_Chulo

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  6 years ago

  ^ interesting - thanks
• Papi_Chulo

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  6 years ago

  @wood
  
  What is the reason(s) you stopped using Uber completely?
• georgmicrodong

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  6 years ago

  If he’s like me, it’s the shitty business practices, privacy violations, and driver screwing.
• Papi_Chulo

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  6 years ago

  ^ so Lyft is different/better?
• MackTruck

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  6 years ago

  Get a rubber hammer
• MackTruck

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  6 years ago

  Whack the crap out of that phone
• MackTruck

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  6 years ago

  It will turn off for sure
• Papi_Chulo

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  6 years ago

  Shit - the damn location is still turning on - disabling the apps didn't work - IDK WTH is going-on; I didn't have this issue w/ my other smartphone (if I turned off location it would stay turned off) - guess I'm gonna have to dig into the user manual.
• Huntsman

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  6 years ago

  ^Papi, do they still come with user manuals?
• Papi_Chulo

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  6 years ago

  ^ one can usually find a user manual online
• Huntsman

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  6 years ago

  Good. I would’ve been pissed if you actually had a traditional instruction manual because then I was ripped off last time I upgraded. :)
• Papi_Chulo

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  6 years ago

  ^ many things seem to not be coming w/ printed manuals these days and one has to go online - which is probably a better way to do it more than just saving $$$ on printing so many manuals.
• londonguy

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  6 years ago

  Look up some youtube videos for it?
• Dominic77

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  6 years ago

  Uber and McD’s apps are the only two apps I allow location services for, and only while they are running, and because the app doesn’t work without it. The ONLY two.
  
  The McD’s app lets you get a premium sandwich once a day for a $1. (Big Mac, quarter pounder, etc.). I don’t use it often but I like frugality. Ditto for Uber.
• jackslash

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  6 years ago

  Don't turn off location services. Those big booty hoes need to be able to find you.