Iphone companion app location keeps changing to 'when using'

Mobile Apps Home Assistant Companion for Apple
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In the HA companion app on my Iphone I have set the location permission to ‘Always’ but it keeps going to ‘When using’.
Has anyone seen thiis issue and has a solution ?

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It is probably the phones permission settings that override the companion app settings.

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It happened to me in my first installation. Try through the configure Menu of your iPhone, scroll down and select the Homeassistant app.
Set Always in the icon

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Thanks but I had done that several times. Something kept changing it back to ‘when using app’. Two days ago I reloaded the server in the companion app and so far so good.

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I have the same problem on my daughter’s iphone, it’s driving me crazy. I changed the setting from the companion app and the iphone settings, but nothing to do. It’s keeping changing back to “When in use” after a day or two, or a few…
We have 4 iPhones and it’s the only one experiencing this issue.

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I don’t remember what I did, but the location on both our Iphones has been stable ‘always on’ for several months now.
In fact I removed the Icloud location because is mostly inaccurate.