HT5467 Does having location services add to monthly data usage?

Does using location services add to your monthly data use?

It can when using an app that requires or requests location services, when capturing a photo or video with location services enabled for photo/video capture, etc., but the amount of data involved is not great.
The iPhone uses A-GPS or assisted GPS which speeds up the intitial GPS lock from a cold state by using cell phone tower location to speed up the process.

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