Oneplus Always On Location Gps Icon Is Probably Nothing To Worry About

In this modern age of connectivity where personal data is considered a currency, security is of utmost importance for many users.

Users are growing ever more privacy-conscious, becoming more and more careful about the services they use and who’s watching.

It is therefore, alarming to discover that your device’s location services are, and remain active even when you are not using it.

This is the situation that a number of OnePlus users are finding themselves in. These OnePlus users are expressing concern over the always-on location (GPS) icon on their devices.

A quick scroll through the community forum and you’ll come through threads like this, full of OnePlus users trying to figure out why their devices’ GPS stays on.

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Some users even suggest that not using Shelf services like parking location could be the solution. But, as it turns out, this issue could have been caused by an update of the OnePlus launcher, at least according to user reports.

And indeed, this issue is caused by a feature of the OnePlus launcher.

The culprit seems to be OnePlus’ proactive search agent dubbed OnePlus Scout. Some users note that you can get rid of this issue by disabling location access for OnePlus Scout.

This always-on location on OnePlus devices might be as a result of the OnePlus Scout trying to be on top of things so you don’t have to search for info when it is invoked. This might, therefor, be pretty harmless.

Of course, there is going to be conspiracy behind such trivial matters and maybe that is a good thing as a people on edge is a vigilant people.

Should any more info on this issue come to light, we shall be on hand to bring it to you so stay tuned to PiunikaWeb.

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