The geo-location, or GPS, on your mobile device must be turned on at all times when using Square. Square needs to know where transactions take place to reduce the risks associated with those transactions and to minimize payment disputes.
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Enable Location Services
Location services is a setting controlled from your device’s general settings, not within the Square app. To enable this setting, follow the steps below:
From an Apple iOS Device
Close out of the Square app.
Navigate to Settings > Privacy > Location Services.
Toggle Location Services on.
From here, you can also control which individual applications have access to location data. Read more on Apple’s support site.
From an Android Device
When you enable location services, the approximate location of your device is determined based on information including: the networks detected by your device (like Wi-Fi routers, their signal strengths, and the type of security they use). The cellular networks. That location services toggle is kind of the master switch to all location permissions. If an iOS user decides to turn off location services completely, a lot of the features that users use every. Create location-aware web and mobile applications using simple and secure geospatial services, APIs, and SDKs in Azure. Deliver seamless experiences based on geospatial data with built-in location intelligence from world-class mobility technology partners. Many apps and iOS system services require location tracking in order to help customize the user's experience and provide the most helpful information possible. All of these apps and system services.
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Close out of the Square app.
Navigate to Settings > Location Services and enable this option.
Learn more on Google’s support site.
Many organizations like logistics companies or cab services, track the corporate device locations. To obtain the most recent device location, the organizations must enable Location Services on the devices at all times. But many users tend to disable the Location Services on devices either to reduce battery consumption or to avoid displaying the device location for privacy reasons. Mobile Device Manager Plus lets you know the current device location in near real-time and also the device location over a period of time. Additionally, it allows organizations to permanently keep Location Services on and prevent turning off location services on iPhone and Android devices.
Apart from tracking the device location, MDM allows admins to perform various remote actions like corporate wipe, remote alarm based on the current device location.
NOTE: You can permanently enable and lock Location Services on Android devices, over-the-air using MDM. In case of iOS devices, you must have the device in hand to permanently enable Location Services, as Apple doesn't allow it to be configured over-the-air to protect user privacy.
Pre-requisites
For iOS
Devices must be with the Administrator, as the settings need to be manually configured on the devices and should be secured with a passcode.
For Android
Devices must be either Samsung devices or must be provisioned as Device Owner.
Steps to prevent disabling location services
For iOS Devices
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Enabling Location Services
- Firstly, ensure ME MDM app has been installed on the device. Know how to automate MDM MDM app installation here.
- After ME MDM app has been installed on the iOS device, open the app and for the Allow Location Access option, select Always or While using the app, though it is recommended to enable the former.
How to prevent turning off Location Services on iOS devices
The steps to disable/turn off Location Services for continuous tracking of device location, differ for devices running OS versions above iOS 12 and below iOS 12
On devices running iOS 12 or later versions,
- Click on Settings and select Screen Time. Now click on Turn On Screen Time.
- Click on Continue, when prompted. Click on the option, This is My iPhone and select Content & Privacy Restrictions.
- Firstly, enable Content & Privacy Restrictions and click on Location Services
- Enable Location Services, which then displays the list of apps which require location permission. Verify if ME MDM app has the permission set as Always or While using the app.
- Once verified, select the option Don't Allow Changes to prevent turning off Location Services on iPhone.
- Now, go back to Screen Time and click on the option Use Screen Time Passcode and set a passcode for Screen Time, which prevents the device user from modifying the settings without the passcode. To disable, you need to go to Screen Time and click on Turn Off Screen Time and provide the passcode, when prompted.
On devices running below iOS 12,
- Navigate to Settings -> General -> Restrictions.
- Click on Enable Restrictions and specify a restrictions passcode, when prompted.
- Navigate to Privacy section and select Location Services. Enable the Location Services option. Under the Location Services menu, all the apps installed in the device are listed. You can disable/ enable Location Services for the apps here. Once this has been configured and the settings saved, the Location Services cannot be modified for the existing apps. If any new app is installed after the settings has been configured, Location Services will not be granted to the app. To modify Location Services for the apps, the settings has to be re-configured.
- Finally, select the option Don't Allow Changes in the Location Services menu, which ensure the settings configured in the previous steps cannot be modified by the users. To disable, you need to navigate to Settings -> General -> Restrictions, clicking on Disable Restrictions and specifying the restrictions passcode when prompted.
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To apply this restriction on multiple devices, take a backup of a device after disabling location services and restore the backup on multiple devices using the steps given here.
NOTE: In case of devices whose OS has been updated from iOS 11.x to iOS 12.x, you need to disable Location Services again, Apple moved it from Restrictions to Screen Time.
How to prevent disabling Location Services on Android devices?
To prevent disabling location services on Android devices, follow the steps given below:
- On the MDM Server, navigate to Device Mgmt and select Profiles(under Manage).
- Click on Create Profile and select Android Profile from the dropdown.
- Provide the required details and create the profile.
- Click on Restrictions and select Location settings.
- For the restriction Location Services, select the option Always On.
- Save and Publish the profile. Now distribute this profile to devices.
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On successful association of the profile, the devices have Location Services enabled permanently and lock Location Services on Android devices, allowing admins to track the device location at all times.
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NOTE: Extended usage of Location Services can affect the device battery life.