Disabling GPS and Elevation Recording?

There was an issue a while back on the va3 where the FW would turn on GPS for CIQ apps that didn't enable GPS.  Could this be what you are seeing?

GPS should be off unless that app itself enables it.

When I complete an activity the summary data shows that it was tracking elevation.  My device is a Vivoactive HR but in many of the reviews on my app people are asking me to disable GPS so I presume they are seeing it on some other devices as well.

The only thing I can think of is that maybe in some activity types it tries to record GPS data as part of the activity itself and that I don't need to explicitly enable it for the device to attempt to do it.

These are the permissions I am using in my app:

<iq:permissions>
    <iq:uses-permission id="Fit"/>
    <iq:uses-permission id="UserProfile"/>
    <iq:uses-permission id="FitContributor"/>
    <iq:uses-permission id="Sensor"/>
</iq:permissions>

Based on sport type, and if the device has a baro, elevation is a separate thing and could be recorded (GPS isn't used for elevation in that case)

When a user looks at an activity in Garmin Connect, do they see a GPS track?  That would tell you if this is related to GPS, but I suspect it's not..

To be honest I am not really sure what they see.  I personally do not see a GPS track, but many of the reviews for my app request I disable it so I wanted to investigate.

Same reviews. Do you find the solution to explictly disable gps?

Did you ever solve this? My app creates an activity:

session = ActivityRecording.createSession({
   :name=>name,
   :sport=>ActivityRecording.SPORT_TRAINING,          
   :subSport=>ActivityRecording.SUB_SPORT_STRENGTH_TRAINING});
session.start();

As far as I know this should not use GPS. Yet reviews claim it does. I have asked for more info but yet to receive any.

When I check the TCX file, or saved Activity in Garmin Connect I can find no evidence of GPS being saved.