LG Stylo phone, Sprint Service, Android. At frequent intervals, the phone vibrates (no noise) and a new Current Location shows up on my screen. How can I disable this feature. I have gone to Personal, Location and clicked OFF, but it continues to do this. It has not done this before. I have no idea what I did to make it start. I have updated the Android system a few times when notified.
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Current Location...how do I turn off??
- Thread starter reevesjo
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Wow, have you installed a VPN? Because I have some apps that will use the VPN's location instead of the GPS location. One app uses both and there's no sense to it! Drives me crazy!
That kind of sounds like a widget. Are you sure you didn't set a widget to do those things every X [hours][minutes][seconds]?
Yay! You're welcome.
puppykickr
Android Expert
Weather apps are notorious security nightmares.
A much better solution for weather info is to bookmark
emergencyemail.org
into your browser, and then go ahead and go through the site.to find the weather in your area.
Also bookmark this new link, and then you will have instant weather info whenever you open your browser and select that bookmark.
I'm not worried about security. Just the tempature.
puppykickr
Android Expert
Did you read the title of this thread?
Yeah I did. We have a lot of different neighborhoods in Boston. Temperatures vary and voices carry.
Try going to Settings then do a search for location. After the search tap on Recent location requests. This will show you a list of apps that want your location. Turn off the ones you don't want asking for it.
HTH
HTH
bambaleilo
Lurker
Not using google account with non Chrome browser with no cookies enabled in incognito mode, is great begging. Next step will be to do that from VPN. But sometimes you are still predictable enoght to be tracked is some way or another. So Tor network is the best you can get as privacy. Tor nodes could be hosted by some government controlled entity, like VPNs, so there is not really a way to stay private on public internet.