Ubers iOS app (3.222.4 and higher) now requests permission to track your location Always The ride-hailing company says it simply wants five more minutes of tracking before and after your ride. TechCrunch quotes Uber as saying it can harvest your location constantly while its app is running in the background It wont use that capability, Uber told TechCrunch. Uber claims it just needs a little bit more location data to improve its service, and it has to ask for constant access.”]