Today the world is adopting digital services with the help of various online apps and programs. While using the smartphone, PC, or laptop, your IP address is tracked, or the location is detected by various apps or programs with the help of cell towers, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and GPS.
You should know how to turn off location tracking on Windows 10 and Mac. Read on to know more about it.
Location Tracking and How to Turn It off
Location tracking might be helpful in various contexts, such as mapping a site, detecting and searching for the lost gadget, or tracking your car, etc. Various apps provide this helpful information, and sometimes this private information is tracked with other sources, and you can’t know who might use this data and for what intention.
No matter which device you are using: Mac laptop or Windows PC, you can easily disable the location tracking feature directly.
Below are the mentioned instructions to turn off Location Detecting feature on your Windows PC or laptop:
How to Turn off Location Tracking on Windows 10 PC
In case you are running a PC on Windows 10, and you need to turn off location via settings directly on your PC, then these are the followed instructions to pursue and apply on your device:
- First and foremost, hit the Windows logo situated at the bottom left-hand side edge of your display. You may also tap the Window key situated on your keyboard.
- Then, input the keywords: settings into the search pane.
- Tap the Enter key to proceed.
- After a while, a complete list of results will follow, and you have to tap the best-matched one on the Settings option.
- Once the Settings page comes to sight, press the privacy icon there. The options will appear as a padlock.
- Hit the Location tab from the menu tab parked at the left-hand side panel of your screen.
- Then, you will see the option for allowing access to location on the device. Once the tracking is turned on, the toggle tab switches to “On.” You have to disable it by sliding it off.
- In case the option “Allow apps to access the location” is also enabled, then you have to disable it by toggling off.
- In case the default location is set as default, you have to delete it.
- Tap the Clear button to remove the location history in the respective section.
- If you are not satisfied with the privacy policy and conditions of any app, you can turn the location tracking feature off to be on the safe side.
How to Turn Off Location Tracking on Mac OS X Laptop?
If you are using a laptop running on Mac OS X edition, and wish to turn off the location tracking feature, abide by these guidelines mentioned below:
- Firstly, hit the Apple icon located at the uppermost right-hand side section of the screen.
- Hit the option “System Preferences.”
- Now, tap the Security and Privacy tab.
- Go to the Privacy section and press the button to launch other related options.
- Navigate to the menu option located at the left side of the window and then locate the option “Location Services and tap on it.
- Hit the padlock icon and then type the admin username and passcode.
- A list of apps will appear that may fetch your location for other purposes. In case you desire to turn off every aspect and option of location tracking, then, go to the option related to enabling location service, and unmark the particular box there. It is available at the top of the apps listing.
- Now, a dialog box will appear and ask that you wish to make some changes to the device. Tap the accept button and then hit the Turn off option.
- Now, exit from the menu tab of “System Preferences” and close the window.
- Finally, reboot the device and then make sure that the location services are turned off.
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