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The Enable Location Services setting turns on the location obtaining devices, and keeps them fully powered up at all times, allowing apps to immediately obtain my location. When they are not in use, they are not using any power.ī. The Enable Location Services setting ALLOWS apps to acquire my location by powering up all the necessary location obtaining devices on demand, and only when needed, and powering them down when they are finished with. I'm trying to establish which of these statements is true:Ī. If Location Services is enabled, does the phone consume more power, at all? And if so, how much? I guess my question, which I'm not sure has been answered here, could be put another way: That is because WiFi and Bluetooth have to actively beacon/probe while the GPS only has to do something when requested. While for WiFi/Bluetooth, etc they say turn off, not just minimize use of "applications" that use it. To disable location services, go to Settings > General > Location Services or use location services only when needed. Minimize use of location services: Applications that actively use location services such as Maps may reduce battery life. Just because the service is on, for all we know the OS only powers on the chip then "when needed"įrom looking at the "Optimize Your Settings" from Now none of us can say for sure about that since we don't know the software/hardware and how they talk/work and as the other poster said, powers the GPS chip. I agree that having location services on doesn't use battery unless an app is using it. I leave Location Services on all the time and I have decent battery life. It does not use extra power to have Location Services enabled if you're not using the app. I don't think you will see a significant difference with this setting alone, which you can determine for yourself with the same usage and other settings over a 2 day period. Leave Location Services off only turning it on when needed one day, and leave it on constantly the next day. You can test this yourself with the same general usage, the same other settings, and at the same locations over a 2 day period. Checking for new email every hour or every 30 minutes instead of every 15 minutes will not make a significant difference by itself but combined with turning other features or services off when not being used will help towards getting the most out of the battery.

Every little bit counts when trying to get the most out of the battery.

The same with leaving wi-fi and Bluetooth on when not connected to a wi-fi network and when not using a Bluetooth headset. Some power will be used with Location Services on without actively using an app that uses Location Services, but it should be minimal when not actively using an app that uses Location Services.