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VanguardLH wrote:

> Unless Google is changing the high accuracy setting to enabled

That is indeed what google did on 16/10/2024 (the day Android 15 was 
released on Pixels).

They enabled it, and left a notification on-screen that they had done 
so, this wasn't only on my Pixel8a phone which got the upgrade, but also 
my Huawei tablet (which hasn't been upgraded in years, thanks to the US 
trade blacklist).