That's not really clear cut. Many times location services are disabled because of the battery impact.
On iOS in particular it's possible to receive location updates only when changing cell towers, wifi, etc, basically it doesn't use any extra battery.
A few days ago I turned this behaviour off on an app and replaced it with a behaviour where instead it polls for location for a few seconds on start and then shuts off all location services because users disable location services because they believe it is negatively impacting their battery life.
The complaints weren't your tracking my location, the complaints were you're killing my battery life.
On iOS in particular it's possible to receive location updates only when changing cell towers, wifi, etc, basically it doesn't use any extra battery.
A few days ago I turned this behaviour off on an app and replaced it with a behaviour where instead it polls for location for a few seconds on start and then shuts off all location services because users disable location services because they believe it is negatively impacting their battery life.
The complaints weren't your tracking my location, the complaints were you're killing my battery life.