Google: how to disable geolocation data on your smartphone?

Google: how to disable geolocation data on your smartphone?

Google tracks your location even when your phone's geolocation is turned off. Here's how to really prevent the Internet giant from tracking you.

To prevent your smartphone from recording your actions, it is possible to block the geolocation. Except that researchers have discovered that Google apps continue to record your moves. Here's how to really block them.

The priority is to block the activity of Google applications, and the first setting is to be done online. To do this, launch your browser and go to the Google page - My activity where the options of your account are hidden.

Then click on "Activity Commands" and disable the "Web and App Activity" and "Location History" options. A window appears to confirm this deactivation. Then click on "Suspend".

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You can also delete data already saved by Google. To do this, go back to Google - My Activity and click on "Other google activity". Then click on "Access Routes" to remove the items related to your recent trips recorded by Maps.

On your smartphone, whether Android or iOS, you can also customize the use of geolocation. To customize the use, go to the "Privacy" settings. Then press "Location Service", and there, application by application, choose whether to allow access to the GPS.

Either you select "Never" if you do not want this application to save where you are, or "When the app is active", when this application needs your location. This is the case of course applications like the weather or Maps. Once the application is closed, the geolocation on your smartphone stops.