opened 12:09AM - 21 Jul 26 UTC
status: new
feature request
**Describe the desired feature**
[From the forum](https://community.appinventor….mit.edu/t/problem-with-the-locationsensor-in-ios/174677/2?u=ewpatton): Sometimes the OS location service will return a location with a "stale" timestamp. This can be due to a variety of reasons, such as n
**Give an example of how this feature would be used**
If an app requires a somewhat recent timestamp, it can ignore any value provided by the OS that does not meet its requirements.
**Why doesn't the current App Inventor system address this use case?**
There is no way in base App Inventor for a developer to know when a location update was actually received by the hardware/OS.
**Why is this feature beneficial to App Inventor's educational mission?**
It isn't particularly relevant, but caching issues are one of the many problems one encounters when learning to build practical software.