Your phone is tracking you even when you think it’s not
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Do you know that little GPS icon that appears when an application is using your location? That is the educated part. The tip of the iceberg. The warm handshake before his phone whispers all his movements to great technologies behind him.
Your phone has more than a way of knowing where you are. Cellular towers, Wi-Fi networks, bluetooth beacons and even background pings track. If you have an old smartphone, you can enter to win a new iPhone 16 Pro at www.komando.com/win.
I am not here to scare you or make a aluminum paper hat.
I am here to help you recover control. I tried these steps, but the menus of your phone can be a bit different depending on the brand and the model. Press your configuration and you will find it.
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Your phone has more than a way of knowing where you are. (Istock)
iPhone: The most cunning configuration
Apple maintains a registration of “significant locations” buried deep in its configuration. It is intended to make your maps smarter and improve recommendations, but it is also a detailed story of where it has been.
Here we show you how to find it and clarify it:
- Gonna Settings > Privacy and safety > Location services.
- Move to Systems service. Tap Significant locations.
- Wear FACE ID or you password To unlock it, then check your history.
- Tap Clear historyand if you no longer want to be track, alternate it.
As long as you are there, check your location services and establish applications for While using either Never. Most do not need access 24/7.
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On iPhones, there is a registration of “significant locations” in its configuration. (Photo of Str/Nurphoto through Getty Images)
Android: timeline and application permits
Android’s version is called “Timeline”, and is linked to his Google account, not only to his device. Even if you change phones, the record follows it unless you turn it off.
To see it:
- Open Google Maps. Touch your profile picture> Your timeline.
- Hit the three points> Location and privacy settings.
- Low Location configurationalternate Timeline. You can too Eliminate all timeline data.
Next, verify the application permits:
- Gonna Settings > Location > Application permits.
- Change any application of “allowing all the time” “allowing only while using” or “denied”.
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In Android, Google Maps has a “timeline” that is worth disabled if privacy. (Guillaume Payen/Soup images/Lightrocket through Getty Images)
Professional advice for both
Even with these turned off, your operator still knows where it is when your phone is connected to the network. If you really need to get out of the network, you should turn off or use the plane mode.
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