{"id":39250,"date":"2023-05-02T13:58:49","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T17:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=39250"},"modified":"2023-05-02T13:59:47","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T17:59:47","slug":"reducing-gaia-gps-battery-drain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/02\/reducing-gaia-gps-battery-drain\/","title":{"rendered":"Reducing Gaia GPS Battery Drain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gaiagps.com\">Gaia GPS<\/a> has worked well for me for years, but recently iOS has been reporting it as the reason my phone&rsquo;s battery has been draining quickly. Of course, this is somewhat expected when I&rsquo;m actively using the app, but the high battery use continues for days after I&rsquo;ve stopped recording a track. The first set of <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.gaiagps.com\/save-phone-battery-life\/\">battery tips<\/a> that I found was not relevant. I need to have the iOS location permissions set for it to always be able to access my location because, when recording, I want it to keep updating even when I switch to another app such as Camera or Messages. Eventually, I found that the solution is to <a href=\"https:\/\/sectionhiker.com\/gaiagps-app-setup-and-battery-management-tips\/\">hide<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/help.gaiagps.com\/hc\/en-us\/articles\/115003639168-Reduce-Battery-Loss\">the compass<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>With the compass enabled, I guess Gaia GPS is constantly asking iOS for location information so that it can update the live display on the map, even though I haven&rsquo;t actually looked at the app in days. I wonder whether something has changed in iOS or in Gaia GPS because this never seemed to be an issue before. But, with iOS 16.4, it&rsquo;s essential if I want to get through even half a day with my aging iPhone 12 mini.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/05\/gaia-gps-acquired\/\">Gaia GPS Acquired<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gaia GPS has worked well for me for years, but recently iOS has been reporting it as the reason my phone&rsquo;s battery has been draining quickly. Of course, this is somewhat expected when I&rsquo;m actively using the app, but the high battery use continues for days after I&rsquo;ve stopped recording a track. The first set [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2023-05-02T17:58:52Z","apple_news_api_id":"a8e4e6d4-2a62-4a1a-89eb-f51654188d10","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2023-05-02T17:59:49Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AqOTm1CpiShqJ6_UWVBiNEA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[28,1232,31,2185,26],"class_list":["post-39250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-batterylife","tag-gaia-gps","tag-ios","tag-ios-16","tag-iosapp"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39250"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39252,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39250\/revisions\/39252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}