Location Icon flashing on top left

[asylvia]

for some reason every few minutes i get the location icon flashing up in the top left of the notification bar. there is always the location icon on the right hand side which i believe is normal but i've never had the one on the left before.

any ideas?

 

[bizzyqu]

it is actively checking what your location is to update location based services.

 

[asylvia]

ok, any way to turn off the notification? i don't need to know when it's doing that.

 

[bizzyqu]

I think the only way to turn it off would be to turn off location services. If you go into settings you can turn it off.

 

[firebird274]

I notice my phone doing that when I had the command center widget running

 

[bizzyqu]

yea the command center widget will periodically check for location data for the weather.

 

[anon(5484072)]

This happened to me when I had the Moto Assist on for Driving and Home.

I have the command center on with those other two off, and I barely see the location symbol.

 

[acculver]

Yesterday I install TripAdvisor's and today my location icon on my nexus 6 is flashing non stop so I uninstall it and the stop the flashing location icon.

 

[TurboHope]

The command center will only check location if you have the 'current location' setting on, I keep mine off unless its needed. Also you definitely can't turn off location notifications without disabling locations all together. Make sure that its not a third party app, I had the app my tracks and it ran all day, used more battery than the screen.

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[aka4]

+1 for the Trip Advisor bug. Was trying to find out which app.

Thanks.