Why Won’t Apple Let Me Turn Location Services Off ?

by jimmy on August 26, 2008

As a recent iPhone 3g owner I have been careful to cut off some services that I don’t need all the time in order to conserve the crappy battery life.  One of those services is the Location Services.  For one, I do not necessarily need this on all the time, and two, I am a little leary of my location being “known” all the time.

So I went into the system preferences of the phone and cut the Location Services off.  Here is a screenshot of this option.

What kept confusing me though, was why the services kept cutting back on …

I started to do some investigation and noticed that even though I would turn the service off, if the phone was powered off and on the services come back on by default.  To me this is a pretty seriouos issue.  If I want to cut this service off, there is a reason for it and I do not want them to decide that it is only a temporary things and cut it back on…

Has anyone else noticed this ?  What are your thoughts ?