Location service stays on consistently after one ui 7 update

[gopicharan]

After the OneUI 7 update, location services stays on consistently. Especially the below services constantly keeps requesting location

Tried, uninstalling and reinstalling Google Play Services. But once I turn on Location Accuracy, the Location request is back on consistently.

Update: The only thing that resolved this issue was a factory reset.

[_rikardo_]

Hi, I have the same problem and tried several things, as mentioned, and the UI Sytem Location still appears.  Let's get your feedback for the play store beta to see if it resolves... or wait for an update or other solution.

Regards.

[raider08]

So far so good with the beta approach, I've been away from home and back, used routines that use my location etc, and no problems. Battery drain is also normal. Fingers crossed 🤞

[raider08]

Its been a few days since I enrolled in the play services beta in the play store and the problem hasn't been reoccurring. I think that's the fix.

[ktrahan]

I had been enrolled in the Google Play Services beta for years now and was having the same problem on my S24U after upgrading to One UI 7 a week or so ago.

After clearing the partition cache (this made no difference) and then uninstalling all Google Play Services updates and then reinstalling them, the problem has gone away and I'm even getting a little bit better battery life than I was with Android 14 and One UI 6.1.

[realaud]

Those apps require the location services to be on.  They are not continuously using the location.  If you go to your battery usage statistics, you will see how little battery resources those apps use.  Even though those two apps look like the might have used a lot of resources based on their background usage, their combined total of battery use is 2.4%.  You can see that continuity services used no GPS and Google Play services used 5 minutes - total, not at a time.

[LeadStarDude]

Mine has been doing something similar, but I have location turned off, all apps blocked from using it, and wifi blocked from using it. When it happens to me, it says the "system" is using location services. I sent a report to Samsung about it. So should you and everyone else who has noticed it.

[DARKREIGN]

Beta isn't working for me. Only thing that works is uninstalling updates for play services or turning off location. This sucks

[unc0der]

This still hasn't been fixed.

[realaud]

It hasn't been fixed, because it's not a bug.  It is designed to keep you informed that your location is in use, much the same way that you get a green dot when your camera or mic is in use.  All those apps you gave location permission to use the location at various times, so your location beacon is in near constant use. It always has been, you just didn't see it/know about it.  The green beacon will reside on the secondary status bar when you pull down the quick panel, but you can turn off the white location indicator on the main status bar by downloading Good Lock's Quickstar and turning off the icon's visibility.  This will ONLY affect the white location icon on the main status bar, not the green "in use" icon.  It uses negligible battery resources.  I challenge you to find it in your battery use statistics.

[sixdaysnl]

This is 100% a bug, and it has definitely NOT always been like that. I understand what the icon and green dot is designed for. It is for when a non-system app uses your exact location. That way, the icon is actually useful because it makes you have a look what app is using it when you do not expect it to be there, hence it works as a privacy check. If its there all the f-ing time, then it's not useful anymore is it? Your solution is like putting earplugs in because the smoke detector beeps. I'm not concerned about battery which hasn't changed for me but this is definitely something that Samsung needs to fix!