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How To Turn Off Location Tracking On Samsung Galaxy J2
- Thread starter startac4
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Just an FYI, you can do a search within settings to find location. On my z fold 4 I have location option in settings.
svim
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Try looking into disabling Location History in your Google account settings instead:
Note that Google is collecting our location data using not just the Location (GPS) option in our phones, but also WiFi (IP address approximation), cell tower triangulation, and phone sensor data.
Manage your Location History - Google Account Help
Location History is a Google Account setting that creates Timeline, a personal map that helps you remember: Places you go Routes to destinations Trips you take
support.google.com
You do have location settings. As said above, just search settings.
If you set location to "device only" that stops Google collecting "anonymous" (but easily de-anonymised) location information (though some apps, like Maps, will occasionally pop up a message that looks like it's telling you that you need to turn location on but actually re-enables the misnamed "high accuracy" mode that allows them to collect these data. The dishonesty of the wording of that pop-up and the way it bypasses the disclaimer about other consequences is for me enough reason never to enable "high accuracy" location, which anyway isn't more accurate as long as you have a satellite fix).
If you want to stop Google recording your location history you need to turn off app and web history in your Google settings as well as location history. Otherwise Google keep a record of where you used each app. There was a fuss a few years back about them keeping this "back door" way of recording location history, but Google won't have done anything about it.
If you don't use location at all you can just turn it off.
If you set location to "device only" that stops Google collecting "anonymous" (but easily de-anonymised) location information (though some apps, like Maps, will occasionally pop up a message that looks like it's telling you that you need to turn location on but actually re-enables the misnamed "high accuracy" mode that allows them to collect these data. The dishonesty of the wording of that pop-up and the way it bypasses the disclaimer about other consequences is for me enough reason never to enable "high accuracy" location, which anyway isn't more accurate as long as you have a satellite fix).
If you want to stop Google recording your location history you need to turn off app and web history in your Google settings as well as location history. Otherwise Google keep a record of where you used each app. There was a fuss a few years back about them keeping this "back door" way of recording location history, but Google won't have done anything about it.
If you don't use location at all you can just turn it off.
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