Help Any way to make Android ask for passcode or fingerprint when try to disable GPS?

[douglasrac]

Would be very useful featur and non invasive. It makes no sense that Google have a locate feature if to disable data and GPS you just have to touch an icon duh /:

 

[psionandy]

Of course.. GPS isn't the only thing android uses to work out its location....

 

[Hadron]

Though it's equally easy to disable it completely.

In principle you need to unlock the phone to change this, but thanks to Google not thinking it through many phones allow you to use the quick toggles without unlocking. So one suggestion would be to edit your quick settings tiles and remove the location mode tile - that way someone will need to unlock the phone to disable it, and if they manage that all is lost anyway.

(Of course you should remove airplane mode and data toggles too if you want to keep location tools working. That's the problem, security requires inconvenience. And that is why it's stupid to allow quick settings to be used with locked phone - but Google are frequently less smart than they think they are).

 

[douglasrac]

I just test it and I was able to disable Wifi, Data and Bluetooth without unlock the device, but to disable GPS is asks to unlock first. GPS without data is useless because it makes impossible to locate the device.

Thanks for your tip Hadron, that is definitely a good way to solve the problem.