Play service causing location green dot to pop up

I have not found anyone talking about this which makes me wonder if I’m the only one facing this issue.

Essentially Play service uses the location permission every time I wake up my phone. 23.35.14 still uses location every time I unlock the phone even in safe mode, the green dot privacy indicator pops up all the time. As early as the version I have tested, 23.26.17 doesn’t have this issue. I have this issue with all recent updates on Android 13. For now, I have to uninstall the Play service update so it won’t get updated.

Should I back up my data and do a flash with full wipes? Are you facing this issue?

Edit: I’m using Pixel 6 Pro on stock Android 13.

Edit 2: To be honest, I am slightly disappointed as this is the 7(?)th Android system Google has made for its Pixel phones. Google has full control over the system and the Play service, unlike other vendors and I’m still facing this kind of weird issue that I just don’t remember ever happening on iOS aside from the poor performance on iOS 11.

nottheengineer,

Do you have location history enabled? If so, that’s why the play services use your location periodically.

It might not be doing that when the device is sleeping after that update, maybe that’s intended.

imrichyouknow,
@imrichyouknow@sh.itjust.works avatar

I have that function disabled on my phone. It’s not about not doing that during sleep though but rather the green dot will pop every single time when I wake up the device, say I lock the screen just 1 second ago 1 second later when I wake up the phone the dot will pop, this can be reproduced repeatedly. I honestly think this must be a bug on my phone specifically but downgrade the Play service does fix this and the updated version is still behaving like this in safe mode. I’m seriously thinking about switching to Lineages OS at this point…

volle,
@volle@feddit.de avatar

Same here. I’m using a magisk module to disable the dot 😄

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