Currently, mobile devices have completely changed human life, but also created mechanisms that allow the user to have greater access to his personal information. location.
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According to the ‘Digital Trends’ web portal, stored information about the location and places you have visited, popular with many companies, because it allows all kinds of announcements and promotions to be made to a selected audience.
In addition, many companies find it valuable to obtain large amounts of data to extract any information that may be. sell to anyone willing to pay.
With the development of technology and the internet, mobile phones manage to hide a large part of the user’s life. But, If you don’t want your device to know more than accountor know your location 24 hours a day, there are ways to get around this.
According to the web portal mentioned above, these are the steps to disable this functionality on both devices. iOS like Android.
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If you want to turn off location tracking on your iPhone or restrict certain apps only, you need to do the following.
-Go to settings’.
-Then select ‘Privacy’.
-Press ‘Location’.
-And finally, ‘disable’.
in the part ‘Location’ You’ll also find a list of apps that have access to location data. By pressing each you can decide whether or not to allow you to access your location with options such as: Never, While using the App or Always.
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While the exact instructions differ slightly from phone to phone, most follow a similar path, although this may vary with updates.
-You have to go to ‘Settings’.
-Then select ‘Location’.
-Press ‘Disable’ and that’s it.
If you want to remove this location from somewhere special application you should:
-You have to go to ‘Settings’.
-Select ‘Applications’.
-Click on ‘App permissions’.
-Then on ‘Location’ and disable it.
Finally, it is important to note There are several reasons why many apps use the monitoring feature. and so you should know that denying access to the location may prevent some from working properly.
MARIA CAMILA SALAS V
DIGITAL SCOPE WRITING
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