[adav]

I don't have a Roomba (or have used their app) but when something annoyingly insists on my location to setup/install, I just hit "Allow Once" with "Precise: Off" just to get past that screen. Then you can turn off the Location Services to "Never" for that app in Settings straight after. Not perfect but good enough?

[anshumankmr]

This can be fixed by an app update as they may check each time you open the app whether they have the required permissions or not.

[Cthulhu_]

Didn't Android have a feature at some point where you could opt to supply it with a fake location? Maybe that was 'hacked' Android phones.

Either way, Android (and iOS) should be stricter about these things; apps should work without any permissions. I mean a navigation app without location access won't work very well and permission can be denied by accident, but that can be resolved.

[irusensei]

Pair the roomba with home assistant and you wont need the app at least for day to day activities. Home Assistant is more responsible because its talking direct to the device IP address instead of using cloud retrocombulators.

[quitit]

Turning off “Precise location” can help with those apps, they’ll just get a vague location

[anshumankmr]

I was talking about the parent comment's workaround to disallowing the location access permission after allowing it the first time.