How to block your phone from tracking your location There are so many possible ways for smartphones — and other devices like smartwatches — to track our location that it’s hard to provide an ...

Here are some tips to make sure location tracking is kept to a minimum: App permissions Head to your phone's control panel to check permissions.

But in other cases, there's little justification for tracking your whereabouts, which then can be exploited by apps, ad services or even hackers.

In any case, you might not want every app to know this, so you can tell your phone to only share its general location. On Android phones, turn off the Location Accuracy setting for all apps.

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But in other cases, there’s little justification for tracking your whereabouts, which then can be exploited by apps, ad services or even hackers.