Yes, Your Iphone Can Track Every Place You Visit - Here's How To Turn It Off

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How to negociate aliases forestall your iPhone from signaling nan places you visit
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ZDNET's cardinal takeaways

  • Apple Maps now tracks and lists places you sojourn automatically.
  • You tin manage, edit, aliases delete your Visited Places successful Maps.
  • Visited Places tin beryllium turned disconnected aliases group to auto-delete.

With iOS 26, Apple added a caller characteristic to its Maps app. Known arsenic Visited Places, this action tracks nan places you visit. That capacity sounds handy, arsenic it gives you a measurement to easy find and return to erstwhile locations.

Also: How to usage Hold Assist connected iOS 26 (and why it's my must-have iPhone feature)

But immoderate characteristic that tracks your whereabouts tin raise a reddish flag. Apple promises that nan accusation is encrypted and that nary 1 astatine nan institution tin publication it. Still, you whitethorn want to negociate aliases moreover move disconnected this option. Here are nan steps.

How to usage Visited Places successful Apple Maps - and disable it

First, see enabling nan Visited Places characteristic successful Maps truthful you tin spot really it useful and past determine if and really you want to usage it. 

Go to Settings, prime Apps, and take Maps. Tap nan mounting for Location and move connected nan switches for Precise Location and Visited Places if they're off.

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Enable Visited Places
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Enable Significant Locations & Routes
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Check retired Visited Places successful Apple Maps
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Tap immoderate spot to position it. You'll past find each nan specifications astir it, including nan location, hours of operation, interaction information, and reviews. You tin besides get directions to it.

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View a circumstantial place
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Next, you tin negociate each individual place. To do this, pat nan ellipsis icon adjacent to a circumstantial place. From nan menu, you're capable to adhd it to your regular Places lists, stock nan spot pinch personification else, adhd a statement to nan place, complaint it, bespeak if nan location is wrong, and region it.

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Manage a Visited Place
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By default, a Visited Place is stored for 3 months. If you want to summation that duration, swipe to nan bottommost and pat Keep Visits. You tin past alteration nan long to 1 twelvemonth aliases forever. After choosing a caller duration, pat Save.

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Change really agelong Visited Places are stored
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Clear visits
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Finally, you tin disable Visited Places entirely. To do this, spell to Settings, prime Apps, and take Maps. Tap nan mounting for Location and move disconnected nan move for Visited Places.

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Disable Visited Places
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