The icon shows an arrow like symbol pointing towards upper right. It appears towards the left of the battery indicator in iPhone.
What does this mean?
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5This is why StackExchange encourages us to wait before accepting an answer: in this case, the first answer was wrong and, as you can see from the voting, the second answerer provided the correct information. Can you change to accept the other post?– Michael MacAskillCommented Dec 5, 2018 at 6:28
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This icon represents Location Services. The icon isn't generally shown all the time. The appearance of this icon indicates that some iOS app/service has recently accessed your current location.
The appearance of the icon can be configured by going to Settings app → Privacy → Location Services → System Services on your iPhone and toggling the switch shown in front of Status Bar Icon item.
Your iPhone may use not just GPS, but a combination of various technologies such as Bluetooth, crowd-sourced Wi-Fi hotspots, location determined by cellular towards, and other GPS like technologies such, GLONASS, Galileo, and QZSS to determine the current location.
Also, as shown above the Status Bar Icon item, the icon itself could be styled in different form to convey different information.
answered Dec 4, 2018 at 11:44
It means that your GPS is turned ON.
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11Not quite -- it means that your location is currently being used by an app. Commented Dec 4, 2018 at 19:42