I always have the blue arrow Icon on Dynamic island. Is it possible to make it invisible?
Hi @feron!
In Arc Timeline app, you can go into the Settings tab → Privacy Settings, and scroll down to “Status Bar Location Indicator”.
This is turned off by default, but for the sake of battery life it’s better to have it turned on.
For Arc Recorder app, you can’t turn it off, because Arc Recorder uses only Apple’s newest APIs, and Apple are edging towards taking away the ability for apps to opt out of the blue status indicator.
Part of that “edging towards” was introduced in iOS 16.4, in that they made it much less energy efficient, if you opted out of the blue indicator. For the app to continue recording location when the indicator is turned off, the app needs to use less efficient settings. An absurd decision by Apple, but one that I also don’t see them backing down from.
If you want to both get rid of the annoying indicator, and get the best battery life / energy efficiency, then I recommend contacting Apple and complaining about what they’ve done. They’ve pushed us into a lose-lose situation, unfortunately, and only they have the power to correct that.
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Hi Matt
Thank you for your answer. That’s right what you say. In Arc Timeline It works with that setting, but not in Arc Recorder. Since I installed Arc Recorder I can see that Icon. Then I will leave it there. Hopefully Apple will correct that in the future, so that blue arrow will invisible in the future.
Best
feron
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I just found the new arc recorder and learned the advantage compared to arc mini, whlie I just deleted it and use back to arc mini just because I really don’t the blue arrow, lol, hope it be solved by Apple very soon
@hutudaxian Unfortunately I don’t think there’s much hope. This is the kind of thing that Apple double down on, instead of walking back from.
The only way it’s going to get fixed is by having enough people complain about it. And given that this is a fairly niche problem, only affecting people who use all-day location recording apps like Arc… I don’t have much hope.
But even so, we have to at least try! So if it does bother you, please do contact Apple about it! Send them feedback, and let them know that you really hate that indicator and want it gone.
I think the ideal would be a setting for each app, inside Settings app’s location privacy settings. If we could say “Don’t show that annoying indicator for this app” in there, it would satisfy both Apple’s privacy concerns and our own UX desires.