from the App store, the only place where you can get this app...

    Location
    This app may use your location even when it isn't open, ...

just... why would a terminal emulator need my location...

Not to mention the exorbitant price for a lifetime license.

> why would a terminal emulator need my location

Because that's the only way Apple allows apps to stay open in the background on iOS so your SSH connection doesn't disconnect after 10 minutes. And the Mac app is a universal app with iPhone/iPad so it has the same permissions. If you never enable the "Connection Keeper" feature it never requests the permission.

Thanks for this, I was unaware of that fact. TIL.

It's really unintuitive!

A lot of photo sync apps also have to use this workaround to be able to sync your photos in the background, it's been a long-standing issue with Apple's platform.

And App Store rules means they have to justify the location permissions so they add a totally unrelated "make a log of your location throughout the day!" feature in the app just to get App Review to approve it, even though everyone knows that's not actually why they need it.