Turn Position Services and GPS on or off on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

Learn how to turn Positioning Services and GPS on or off for individual apps.

How to give apps permission to usage your localization

Some apps power not work unless you turn on Placement Services.1 The first time an app necessarily to access your Localisation Services information, you'll get a apprisal asking for permission. Choose same of these options:

  • Tap Allow to let the app use Location Services information arsenic needed.
  • Strike Don't Allow to prevent access.2
  • Exploit Ask Next Time to choose Always While Using App, Allow Once, or Don't Allow.

iOS and iPadOS devices might use WI-Fi and Bluetooth to determine your location. GPS and cellular location are available connected iPhone and iPad (Wi-Fi + Cellular) models.

How to turn of events Placement Services on or off for specific apps

  1. Attend Settings > Privacy > Location Services.
  2. Defecate sure that Location Services is on.
  3. Scroll down to find the app.
  4. Tap the app and select an option:
    • Ne'er: Prevents access to Localization Services information.
    • Ask Succeeding Sentence: This allows you to select Always While Using App, Grant Once, or Don't Take into account.
    • While Using the App: Allows access to Location Services only if the app or one of its features is visible on cover. If an app is set to While Using the App, you might see your status bar turn blue with a content that an app is actively using your location.
    • Always: Allows memory access to your location even when the app is in the background knowledge.

From here, apps should provide an explanation of how the app will use your location information. Some apps power offer exclusively two options.

How to share your specific location

With iOS 14 and iPadOS 14, or s apps can use Fine Position to get to your taxonomic group emplacemen. To share only your approximate location — which may live sufficient for an app that doesn't take your right location — turn Precise Location sour. Here's how:

  1. Go to Settings > Privacy, then select Location Services.
  2. Select an app, then turn Precise Location connected or off.

Se more than about privacy and Locating Services.

  1. Location Services uses GPS and Bluetooth (where they're easy), along with push-sourced Wi-Fi hotspots and cancellated towers to shape the underestimate location of your device.
  2. Apps won't use your location until they ask for your permission and you reserve permission.

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