Google Maps: hide forever the "Improve accuracy by turning on WI-FI" popup

[mirko77]

Hi everybody,

on the latest Google Maps app, when tapping the button to find your current location while on 3G or 4G network, there is always a popup appearing asking me if I want to turn on wifi to improve the location accuracy. I can dismiss it, but next time I open Maps it will appear again.



How can I dismiss it for good?

Thanks

 

[srkmagnus]

Hi everybody,

on the latest Google Maps app, when tapping the button to find your current location while on 3G or 4G network, there is always a popup appearing asking me if I want to turn on wifi to improve the location accuracy. I can dismiss it, but next time I open Maps it will appear again.

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How can I dismiss it for good?

Thanks

Go into Settings > Location. Make sure location is set to "On" and the Mode "High Accuracy". You may have that disabled, so it's trying to pinpoint your location by using an alternate means, such as through Wi-Fi.

Let us know how that works for you.

 

[bigoldthor]

The "High Accuracy" setting will work, but it also consumes more battery life. If you use Maps a lot, then it might make sense to leave it on. But if you only use it sporadically, I recommend leaving it off and just going through this extra step when needed.

 

[mirko77]

Here are my settings, High Accuracy has been on all the time, still I get that annoying popup.

 

[raptir]

The "High Accuracy" setting will work, but it also consumes more battery life. If you use Maps a lot, then it might make sense to leave it on. But if you only use it sporadically, I recommend leaving it off and just going through this extra step when needed.

High Accuracy doesn't consume any additional battery except when an app requests high accuracy location. If it's causing a noticeable battery drain then you have an app that's requesting high accuracy unnecessarily.

Here are my settings, High Accuracy has been on all the time, still I get that annoying popup.

I'm thinking this might be a bug. In previous versions, once you hit Ignore once it would not come back (if you tapped outside the box to dismiss it, it would still come back). Now I'm seeing the same thing as you, the popup is coming up every time.

 

[mirko77]

I am pretty sure if we report it to Google they will say it works as intended...they love to break stuff!

 

[smileman]

I am pretty sure if we report it to Google they will say it works as intended...they love to break stuff!

I'm having this problem too on my Sony Xperia Z 3 compact. What a hassle.

 

[godzillinois]

Has anyone figured out a way to do this yet? After the last update this message keeps popping up for me whenever I open Google Maps. It's pretty annoying, never happened before (Samsung Galaxy Note 4)

 

[mirko77]

I don't know what is Google thinking!

Is there a way we can just report it as bug or as a massive annoyance somewhere???


:-!

 

[Rukbat]

This is why I back up every version of every app.