Sheogorath :si_blobfox:  

Hello android pros,

Can anyone explain me why the system UI app on LinageOS is constantly polling my location data?

I'm reasonably sure there is a sane explanation I'm just curious.

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kravietz 🦇
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Weather widget is a plausible explanation

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Sheogorath :si_blobfox:  

@kravietz Good guess, but it doesn't seem to bring a weather gadget out of the box and the one I installed additionally, I just removed, along with the clock (means all widgets are gone) but no change in behaviour. Roughly every 20 seconds it's requesting the location data. :blobfoxthink:

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Marcus  

@sheogorath @kravietz Another guess: finding getting sunset/sunrise times for night-light mode (or whatever LOS calls that in this iteration)

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Sheogorath :si_blobfox:  

@Bubu @kravietz another good one! I just disabled automatic brightness adaption, which also mentioned something about locations. Sadly didn't stop it.

If you wonder how I see those activities, I attached a screenshot of the setting I adjusted in the privacy manager/dashboard.

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