Question

Visiting any JQuery Mobile powered page with my iOS device seems to activate geolocation (the arrow appears on the upper right corner of Mobile Safari). The JQuery Mobile site itself exhibiting this behavior. My application does not require geolocation, and it seems like a waste of battery.
How can I disable this geolocation ?

Answer 1

Like said in https://forum.jquery.com/topic/jquery-mobile-activating-geolocation-on-mobile-devices it can be fixed by removing some code from jQueryMobile 1.2 (starting from line 846):

// DEPRECATED
if ( $.uiBackCompat !== false ) {
     $.Widget.prototype._getCreateOptions = function() {
         return $.metadata && $.metadata.get( this.element[0] )[ this.widgetName ];
    };
}

But I don’t know why, yet….