The Orion mobile app does not handle location permissions like Safari, meaning on a per-site basis. Once the app is given location permission, then it will always grant any site's location request. Safari prompts for every site that requests location.
Follow these steps to test what I mean:
- Allow Orion access to your location while using the app once prompted
- Visit permission.site, tap on the Location button, and note that it turns green with no prompt.
- Visit mybrowserlocation.com and tap the "Show My Browser Location" button, observe that it gives you exact latitude and longitude of your location, without a prompt.
How it behaves in Safari:
- Allow Safari access to your location while using the app
- Visit permission.site, tap on the Location button, and note that Safari prompts you to allow or deny location. Refresh the page, and tap the Location button again, and note that you are again prompted to allow your location.
- Visit mybrowserlocation.com and tap the "Show My Browser Location" button, observe that you are prompted to allow or deny permission to your location. Refresh the page and tap the button again, and you are again prompted for permission.
What I suggest
- Allow per-site location permissions in Orion mobile, regardless of whether or not you have location access enabled for Orion, it should not automatically grant your location data to any site that wants it. This could be a privacy and/or security risk.
- I would suggest that you take it a step further than Safari does, and not only ask for allow/deny, but offer to remember the user's choice. If remembered, the site will not prompt again. If not remembered, the user will be prompted each time location is requested by the site.
