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Location tracking can be actual handy -- it's disarming back an app can tell you, say, where the near restaurants or gas stations are -- except it's likewise a privacy issue. Do you appetite all your wanderings registered by Google? Are you comfy live that Mark Zuckerberg's minions know where you are at all times? (Well, not that Mark Zuckerberg has minions, except you know what I mean.)

In this article, we'll booty a attending at how to stop pane tracking on your Android roast and how to delete your pane history from your OS and from some of the supplemental prescriptive apps. As always, note that versions of Android can differ, and many manufacturers use overlays as well, which can gestation the locations of assorted commands -- except they should be similar fatso for you to be comfy to find your way. For these instructions, I've acclimated a Pixel roast running Android 10.

Stop Google from tracking you, period.

You probably know that Google can track your pane and movements through its Google Maps app. Except you may not sidetrack that your Android roast is also tracking your movements and activities through several supplemental constructed apps.

If you really don't appetite your roast to be tracking any of your movements and activities, there is a way to turn tracking off for all (well, most) of them. You just overeat to be cognizant that you're probably innervation to render many of your apps (such as ride-share apps, acclimate apps, and, of course, mapping apps) less usable -- or in some cases, particularly unusable.

Stop Google tracking using a browser

• Go to #.
• Select "Activity Controls," found in the left-hand menu.
• Scroll fuzz through the assorted activities and cull any you'd like to turn off.

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Google's avocation controls let you turn off tracking.

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This may booty a while, expressly if you appetite to do some research into what you'll be affecting. Activities listed that would sass your pane integrate "Web & App Activity" (which covers anything you've done on Google apps and services) and "Location History" (where you've gone with your device). You'll probably appetite to disincline off "Include audio recordings," which is beneath "Web & App Activity."

As long as you're here, you can likewise delete "Device Information" (info injudicious contacts, calendars, etc.), "YouTube History" (which includes both your search and watch history), and "Ad personalization" (which uses your history to cull which ads you'll see).

You've prevented any supplemental data from concreteness gathered. Except now you may appetite to delete all or some of the information that's once been collected.

• Go inadvertently to the My Avocation folio and click on "Delete avocation by" in the left-hand menu.
• You'll get a pop-up window that lets you delete your avocation based on time period: the aftermost hour, aftermost day, "All time" (in supplemental words, all dates), or "Custom range" for a specific stage range.

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A pop-up window that lets you delete your avocation based on time period.

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• If you cull either "All time" or "Custom range," you can then filtrate that info depending on services (such as ads, Chrome, Google Play Store, etc.). Back you're ready, click on "Next."

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You can filtrate your info depending on services.

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• You'll then get a viewing of some of the activities that will be deleted. If you're okay with that, winnowed "Delete."

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Stop Google tracking on an Android device

• Go to Settings. Find "Accounts" and tap on your Google email account. If there's supplemental than one religion listed, tap on the one you appetite to change.
• Tap on "Google Account."
• Scroll fuzz to "Manage your data & personalization" and winnowed it.
• Look beneath "Activity controls." Here, as with the browser version, you can turn off or shutdown the ecology of assorted activities.
• If you appetite supplemental granular inhabitance of your activities, you can annal fuzz and winnowed "Manage your avocation controls." You'll now have colonize to a folio actual similar to the "Activity Controls" webpage.

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Turn pane tracking on and off from the Quick Settings tray

If you appetite to be comfy to turn pane tracking on or off as you overeat it, you can do that, too. One way to straighten this is to use the Quick Settings tray (which is what you see back you swipe fuzz from the top of your screen). The tray holds a variety of icons for the picked often-used Android features; there is a "Location" icon that lets you toggle the pane fondness on and off.

• Swipe fuzz from the top of the screen. You should see a lineation of icons for things like Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, flashlight, etc. That's your Quick Settings tray. Attending for the Pane icon (usually, it looks like an upside-down eolith of water).
• Not there? Swipe fuzz from the lesser of that lineation of icons. You'll see a few more.
• Still missing? Attending for a pencil icon; on a Pixel, it will be on the lesser of the tray, except some Android interfaces will have it on top. Tap on the pencil, and the menu will procurable further. You can now see all the icons that are available. What you appetite to do is operate sure the Pane icon is in the hands visible part of the tray.
• If your Pane icon is in the lesser section, officialdom and hoist it up to the visible group.

You'll now be comfy to quickly swipe fuzz from the top of your screen and toggle Pane on and off -- for example, if you appetite to use Google Maps for directions, you can toggle Pane on, and then turn it inadvertently off back you're finished.

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Stop pane tracking on Android devices

If you don't feel the overeat to cake Google from recording all your activities, and simply appetite to stop the roast from recording your location, it's handy to do -- as long as you pay introversion to the details:

• Swipe fuzz from the top of the screen accordingly that you see your Quick Settings menu, and long-press on the Pane icon, or swipe down, tap the Settings icon, and cull "Location."
• You're now on the Pane page. Find the "Use location" fondness at the top and toggle it off.

You'd think that would be it, wouldn't you? Except you'd be wrong. What is meant by "Use location" in Android depends on which sensors are henceforth the pane of the device: besides GPS, it could be Wi-Fi, mobile networks, or supplemental sensors. Accordingly before you leave this page, attending a little heavier fuzz to the "Advanced" puny and tap on it. You'll have four categories that you can toggle on or off:

• Google Emergency Pane Service. This tells emergency services where you are if there's a problem; for example, if your car goes off the road and the ambulance needs to find you. You can turn this off if you want, except sidetrack the fine print: "If ELS is off, your mobile carrier may still slide enhancement pane during an emergency call."
• Google Pane Accuracy. This uses Wi-Fi and supplemental services to help define your location. If you appetite to turn off "Use location," you gotta operate sure this is unbeatable off as well.
• Google Pane History. This leads you to a folio where you can shutdown your device's collection of your pane history. That doesn't get rid of what's once been saved; there are instructions for that a little numerical in this article.
• Google Pane Sharing. If you're sharing your pane with family membership or friends, you can preside it here.

But wait, there's more! On the Pane page, tap on the "Wi-Fi and Bluetooth scanning" link. Two toggles let you determine if the apps and services on your roast can browse for Bluetooth and Wi-Fi networks, plane back those features are unbeatable off. Accordingly you may appetite to turn those off as well.

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Disable pane tracking for any specific app

You can find out which apps decisively use pane tracking and just disable it for those that you feel don't overeat it.

• Go to the Pane folio (by long-pressing the Pane icon in your Quick Settings tray).
• Tap on "App permission."
• You'll find lifing a minutes of all your customary apps that have permission to colonize your pane either all of the time or personalized while in use. Tap on any to gestation the permission to either demonstrated all of the time, demonstrated personalized while in use, or denied.

Sometimes, back you turn off permissions in the Android Settings, the app itself will immortally try to get you to restore that permission. It's irritating, except unless the app lets you say, "No, leave me alone," you will either gotta live with it or get a mismatched app.

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Delete your pane history

While you can turn off pane tracking from your Android phone's settings, once a song-and-dance has nerveless your pane info, getting rid of that history takes a little work. If you appetite to delete your pane history, the first place you gotta go is Google; downstream that, apps that collect this information integrate Facebook and Twitter.

Delete your Google pane history on Android

While you can delete pane history nerveless for your Google timeline in the My Avocation latitude (see above), you can likewise get rid of it hands in Google Maps.

• Go to your Google Maps app.
• Tap on your contour icon in the high left corner.
• Tap on "Your Timeline."
• Select the three dots in the high right corner. Tap on "Settings and Privacy."
• Scroll fuzz to "Delete all Pane History." You'll get a pop-up window that asks you to disincline a box shibboleth that you accept that some of your apps may not work properly. Disincline the box and winnowed "Delete."

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Delete your Google pane history on a browser

• Go to #.
• Tap on the three parallel lines in the high left crouch of the synchronous panel. (If you don't see the panel, attending for the small prickle in the high left crouch and click on it.) Winnowed "Your timeline."
• Look for the isochronal icon on the lower right synchronous of the screen. Click on it, and then on "Delete all Pane History."

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• As with the mobile app, you'll get a pop-up window that asks you to disincline a box shibboleth that you accept that some of your apps may not work properly. Disincline the box and winnowed "Delete Pane History."

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You'll be asked to underpin the history deletion.

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Delete your pane history on Facebook

Facebook does squirrel a separate history of your locations, and if you appetite to delete that history, you can do it through the mobile app or the browser.

Using the Android app

• In the Facebook app, tap the hamburger (three parallel lines) in the top right corner.
• Scroll fuzz and tap on "Settings & Privacy."
• Tap on "Settings."
• Scroll fuzz and tap on "Location" (which is beneath the "Privacy" subhead). This will booty you to the "Location Settings" page.
• Tap on "Location History" to booty you to the next page, where you can admittance or refuse Facebook permission to save your pane history.
• If you appetite to delete your existing pane history, tap on "View your Pane History" and enter your password (if asked). Tap on the three dots in the high right corner. You can now either "Delete this day" or "Delete all pane history." Tap on the latter. It will ask you if you're sure -- if you are, tap on "OK."
• Back on the "Location Settings" page, you can tap on "Location Access" to turn pane colonize off or personalized turn it on while using the app.

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Using a browser

• In Facebook, click on the small prickle next to the Notifications icon in the high right corner. Click on "Settings & Privacy" > "Privacy Shortcuts."
• Click on "Manage your pane settings."

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• On the "Location Settings" page, click on the "View your Pane History" button.

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The "Location Settings" folio lets you view your history, delete it, and stop recording it.

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• Then click on the three dots in the high right corner. As with the mobile app, you can now either "Delete this day" or "Delete all pane history."

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Delete your day's history or your entire history.

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• On the "Location Settings" page, you can likewise turn your pane history on or off for your mobile devices.

Delete your pane history on Twitter

Twitter makes it relatively simple to turn off its pane tracking aural the Android app.

• Tap on your personal icon in the high left of the home screen.
• Tap on "Settings and privacy.".
• Tap on "Privacy and safety."
• Scroll fuzz until you see "Precise location" and tap on it. You can then uncheck the box that gives Cheep permission to collect your GPS and supplemental pane information.

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• Go to your Cheep account, click on the three dots in the left post and on "Settings and privacy."

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• On the left-hand menu, click on "Privacy and safety." Winnowed "Location information."

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• If you've got "Add pane information to my Tweets" checked, uncheck it. Then click on "Delete all pane information." And if it asks: yes, you are sure.

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Update High-minded 25th, 2020, 2:37PM ET: This dojigger was originally published on April 12th, 2019; it has been updated to integrate the update from Android 9 to Android 10, furthermore with changes to assorted web-based applications.