In an age when privacy concerns are at the forefront of technological discussions, many smartphone users believe that turning off their location services ensures their movements remain private.

Disabling location services can enhance your privacy or extend battery life, but it can make your phone less convenient. You can turn location services on or off from the Settings app on an iPhone or ...

Location services are what Android 12 uses to find out where you are. Your Android phone can then use this information for anything from Google Maps, Find My, Uber, Yelp, Android Auto, and many other ...

You can see all of the locations your iPhone thinks are significant and turn off the location features in Settings. Image: D. Griffin Jones/Cult of Mac If you’re uncomfortable with social media apps ...

To prevent Microsoft and other apps from tracking your whereabouts, you can turn off location tracking on your Windows 11 PC. You can do this for all services or specific ones, and I’ll show you how.

There’s a reason why apps frequently ask you for permission to access your location, even when they function adequately without it. Many companies like Google use your location services to provide ...

When you first sign in to a new iPhone it's quite possible you enabled location services and your phone has been tracking you ever since. And for the most part that might be absolutely fine, but what ...

iPhone users, you might want to check your Settings, because there’s a location feature you may not have noticed. During the week of Aug. 22, people on Twitter began to share screenshots what was ...