Regardless of whether you use an iPhone or an Android smartphone, you've undoubtedly already downloaded an app that requests access to your location. But is it really necessary for a mobile game or note-taking app to geolocate you to the nearest metre? No. In order to prevent an Android or iOS app from accessing your specific location, follow these steps.
Although I'm not an iOS specialist, there are two different sorts of geolocation that apps on Android can use. You can be roughly geolocated within a 3 km2 radius using the "coarse location," and you can be precisely located within a few metres using the "fine location" (50 metres and less). The accessibility of the "fine location" is inevitably more intrusive than for the "coarse location," as indicated by the difference in the resources that the programme can use.
You can now provide an app access to your location when it asks for it on iOS 16 and Android 12, but just give it access to your general location.
How to stop your Android smartphone from sharing your exact location with third parties
You may control the permissions given to your apps on Android by using the well-known Privacy Dashboard:
Navigate to Settings, then Location.
Simply select the application of your choosing.
the switch marked with a Apply precise location.
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How to stop your iPhone from sharing your precise location
The procedure is largely the same on iOS. The Location Service menu under the Privacy menu allows you to view which apps are accessing your location, just like with Android's Privacy Dashboard.
To see a list of your apps, go to Settings and scroll down.
Tap the app of your choice after choosing it.
Click Location.
Exact Position switch should be turned off.
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This concludes the brief instruction on denying an app access to your precise location. Did this advice prove useful? What other kind of apps, except navigational ones like Google Maps or Maps, are you willing to give access to your specific location?
