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How to stop your iPhone from tracking locations you frequently visit
iMore Blog ^ | January 9, 2018 | by Luke Flipowtcz

Posted on 03/26/2018 11:43:55 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Your iPhone will track and record places that you visit most often to provide better location-based data and suggestions across iOS 11. While these suggestions can be super helpful, you may not like the idea of your iPhone and iPad tracking the locations you frequent

If you value your privacy more than you do location-based data and suggestions, you can turn the feature off.

How to turn off Significant Locations on iPhone and iPad:

1. Launch the Settings app from the Home screen.

2. Tap on Privacy.

3. Tap Location Services at the top.

4. Tap System Services. It's all the way down at the bottom of the list.

5. Tap Significant Locations.

6. Enter your passcode, use Touch ID, or Face ID, to authenticate access.

7. Tap the Significant Locations On/Off Switch. When the switch is gray, that means the feature has been turned off.

(Excerpt) Read more at imore.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: digitalprivacy; iphone; privacy
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You will be surprised the information gathered from your iPhone. Note, Apple claims that your locations are encrypted.
1 posted on 03/26/2018 11:43:55 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This does not stop them from tracking you through your signal to cell towers and Nothing will except removing the Battery.

If you are on their list, there is Nothing you can do except throw it away.


2 posted on 03/26/2018 11:51:28 AM PDT by eyeamok (Tolerance: The virtue of having a belief in Nothing!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Tossing it into the ocean works well....................


3 posted on 03/26/2018 11:52:14 AM PDT by Red Badger (The people who call Trump a tyrant are the same people who want the president to confiscate weapons.)
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To: eyeamok; Swordmaker

Correct. While YOU can turn off your tracking location history, so that YOU can’t see it - “They” still know where you’ve been.


4 posted on 03/26/2018 11:53:44 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Stop going to those places???


5 posted on 03/26/2018 11:54:44 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Free Republic has been reduced to primarily a gathering place for the inane, banal, and obtuse.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Just this morning we got told that iPhone defended your privacy with its life.


6 posted on 03/26/2018 12:02:36 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Android tracks my Facebook stuff, iPhone tracks my location. Screw it, I'm carrying this. Even if the camera resolution is horrible.


7 posted on 03/26/2018 12:06:53 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: gov_bean_ counter

Leave your phone at home?


8 posted on 03/26/2018 12:08:53 PM PDT by rdl6989
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To: eyeamok

“This does not stop them from tracking you through your signal to cell towers and Nothing will except removing the Battery”

Well you can turn off the device. Wouldn’t that work?


9 posted on 03/26/2018 12:09:16 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: Larry Lucido

It looks kind of heavy.


10 posted on 03/26/2018 12:10:50 PM PDT by rdl6989
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

later


11 posted on 03/26/2018 12:11:26 PM PDT by apocalypto
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To: plain talk
Well you can turn off the device. Wouldn’t that work?

NOPE!! With sophisticated equipment as long as the battery is in the phone, they OWN IT!!! See Gulf War 2 when junior took the press to Baghdad
12 posted on 03/26/2018 12:13:44 PM PDT by eyeamok (Tolerance: The virtue of having a belief in Nothing!)
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To: Larry Lucido

That’d make a great “burner” phone as it is mostly made out of wood.


13 posted on 03/26/2018 12:16:08 PM PDT by Flick Lives
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To: eyeamok

I think you could put it into a metal box.


14 posted on 03/26/2018 12:18:29 PM PDT by cymbeline
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To: eyeamok
This does not stop them from tracking you through your signal to cell towers and Nothing will except removing the Battery.

This.

Forget about not being tracked, you're being tracked and have been for decades.
15 posted on 03/26/2018 12:32:58 PM PDT by TexasGunLover
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To: TexasGunLover

They can track me all that they want-——and they will be bored to death.:-)

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16 posted on 03/26/2018 12:38:22 PM PDT by Mears
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To: Flick Lives

Some kindling might be required.


17 posted on 03/26/2018 12:50:02 PM PDT by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

18 posted on 03/26/2018 1:03:32 PM PDT by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust Sessions. The Great Awakening is at hand...MAGA!)
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To: Larry Lucido

Android tracks your location no matter what you do says Popular Mechanics.
I’ll bet all cell phones do.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/security/a13819012/google-android-phone-cell-tower-tracking/


19 posted on 03/26/2018 1:06:30 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I love Bull Markets!)
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To: eyeamok

I am not following you. When the phone is turned off there is no way the carrier knows your location.


20 posted on 03/26/2018 1:07:26 PM PDT by plain talk
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