Not to defend the shitty app, but it’s probably Google’s fault. Location access is needed to just query WiFi or do a hotspot. Probably features the app needs. They should’ve make that more granular.
They show a map where vehivle last parked compared to you.
They could use it for their proprietary phone as key feature that doesn’t work and is unreliable compared to using UWB.
Gonna add this one since its totally the reason, sell your data. They store the car data, why not get the phones location data so you can get them all the time!
Not to defend the shitty app, but it’s probably Google’s fault. Location access is needed to just query WiFi or do a hotspot. Probably features the app needs. They should’ve make that more granular.
They need it for 2 things I believe.