Any specific reason to not allow a navigation app to have location access? Without the current location, you'd have to enter the current location manually.
Google Maps on the iPad is just a mapping facility for me and not a navigational tool.
I share the same frustration and instead deleted the app and used the website instead. Google does not need to know my home location.
The same app also asks me to logon with my Google account - persistently. There is no option to say 'stop fucking asking'. The Google Maps for iOS team is obviously a bunch of brogrammers without kids, cos if they weren't they'd realise that a common use case for an iPad is a family shared device. Hence, I don't want to login with my account, and I don't really want anyone else from my family to either.
To annoy me further the app already knows my google account name. How? I thought these iOS apps were sandboxed?
Sorry rant over. It pisses me off that I have to make a decision between privacy and convenience. Such is life.
Multiple apps published on a single ios dev account can optionally be configured with a shared keychain, that's probably how they pick up your account info.
I feel like on HN I could convincingly pretend it's something to do with distrusting Google with my data. In reality it's user incompetence.
Back in iOS6 I added a passcode to changing location service permissions on a whim of security. I promptly forgot it. Upgrading to iOS7 has added extra security measures that makes it impossible to extract the passcode from backups :(
