Location quick enable

I'm not sure if this is the right place for feedback / feature suggestions, but...
I realize that, in IOS8, an app developer needs to do something to enable the "While Using" option for location services for an app. While this is certainly not ideal (and I cannot see why it shouldn't be an OS override), given this, it would be nice to have some sort of quick UI option to enable and disable features like location services for an app. This would be as an alternative to going into Settings, enabling it before I use the app, then disabling it afterwards, as you would need to do now to allow the app location data while running, but not otherwise.
Or, as an alternative, maybe an additional option in Settings for "Restrict to While Using", or something like that.
Just a thought / wish item.

Thanks; submitted to feedback.

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The following information will appear:
+Using profiles may be useful if you move your device from one location to another. For example, you might have one profile for using your base station or Time Capsule at home, where you connect to the Internet using PPPoE. You might have another profile for your office, where you connect to the Internet using DHCP.+
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+Open AirPort Utility, select the device you want to add profiles for, and then click Manual Setup. Enter the password if necessary.+
+AirPort Utility is located in the Utilities folder in the Applications folder on a computer using Mac OS X, and in Start > All Programs > AirPort on a computer using Windows.+
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+On a Windows computer, select a profile from the list and click Duplicate. Give the copy a name, “Office,” for example, and then click Done. Make the appropriate changes to your base station, depending on how you use it.+
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I would like to enable location services on my mac but when I follow the instructions it does not work. As stated on the Apple website I have gone to privacy and have tried to check the box which says "enable location services" unfortunately I cannot click in the box/or when I do nothing happens. It looks like that option has been disabled. I recently updated to Yosemite so not sure if that is the problem, however I did not have location services enable before.

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I've read lots of things that say if you want to save battery power, disabled "Location Services".
I find it annoying that on the odd occasion that I want to use Location Services, say, to find an ATM near where I am, I have to go into settings and enable it, and then go back into the app I tried to use, and go and enter my search again, etc.
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Tamara wrote:
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I leave Location Services on all the time and I have decent battery life.
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While for WiFi/Bluetooth, etc they say turn off, not just minimize use of "applications" that use it. That is because WiFi and Bluetooth have to actively beacon/probe while the GPS only has to do something when requested.
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Siri-location services always on please help!!

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I have developed a photo app for the iPhone, released a couple of days ago, that's doing rather good in the App Store, but would probably do a lot better if it weren't for the negative reviews saying that they can't understand why the app wants access to Location Services to be able to select photos from the photo gallery.
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