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by wesd 3564 days ago
I can get to/from work four different ways. I want to know which way is the fastest. It gets tiring turning GPS on on/off every day just before using Maps.
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That is a conscious and deliberate UI/UX decision.

It could (and should) be possible to specifically activate location services, or to otherwise indicate your location, when using an application which specifically requires it. For, say, 5 minutes. Or 15, or 1 hour.

Turning this into a chore is just a cattleprod moving you along the gate to that chute dumping you in the "GPS always on" mode.

I am hypersensitive to such manipulations, and take a hard turn in the opposite direction.