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		panarky on Oct 6, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: iOS 11's Misleading "Off-Ish" Setting for Radios I... Google Maps is perfectly usable with location turned off. I often use it this way just to stretch the battery.

dingo_bat on Oct 6, 2017 [–]

He means location tracking, not location. If you turn off location tracking in settings, maps will keep bugging you. Even though it just needs location at that time and it is enabled, but you must allow Google to create a fucking timeline of you all the time otherwise maps will keep nagging you.

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