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

Acquire how to turn Location Services and GPS on or off for individual apps.

How to requite apps permission to use your location

Some apps might non work unless y'all plough on Location Services.i The starting time time an app needs to access your Location Services information, you'll go a notification asking for permission. Choose one of these options:

  • Tap Allow to let the app use Location Services data as needed.
  • Tap Don't Permit to prevent admission.ii
  • Tap Enquire Side by side Fourth dimension to cull Ever While Using App, Allow Once, or Don't Let.

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

How to plow Location Services on or off for specific apps

  1. Go to Settings > Privacy > Location Services.
  2. Make sure that Location Services is on.
  3. Scroll down to notice the app.
  4. Tap the app and select an choice:
    • Never: Prevents access to Location Services information.
    • Ask Adjacent Time: This allows you to choose E'er While Using App, Let In one case, or Don't Allow.
    • While Using the App: Allows access to Location Services merely when the app or i of its features is visible on screen. If an app is set to While Using the App, you might run across your status bar plow blue with a message that an app is actively using your location.
    • E'er: Allows access to your location even when the app is in the background.

From here, apps should provide an caption of how the app will employ your location data. Some apps might offer but two options.

How to share your specific location

With iOS 14 and iPadOS xiv, some apps can utilize Precise Location to go to your specific location. To share only your guess location — which may be sufficient for an app that doesn't need your verbal location — turn Precise Location off. Hither'due south how:

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

Learn more about privacy and Location Services.

  1. Location Services uses GPS and Bluetooth (where they're bachelor), along with oversupply-sourced Wi-Fi hotspots and cellular towers to determine the approximate location of your device.
  2. Apps won't use your location until they ask for your permission and you allow permission.

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