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Prevent Apps from Accessing Your Location on Your iPhone

Location Services on iPhone allows your apps to do all kinds of things, such as give you directions from your current location to your destination or track your jogging route with GPS. However, that also means that some apps might be using your location when you don’t want them to. Thankfully, you can choose to turn off Location Services altogether.

Why You’ll Love This Tip

Prevent apps from using your location when you don’t want them to.
Keep your location private from apps and other people.

How to Turn Off Location Services on iPhone & iPad

System Requirements

While this tip works on previous versions of iOS, the screenshots below were captured using an iPhone 16 running iOS 26. Find out how to update to the latest version of iOS.

Turning off Location Services on iPhone is easy to do within your Privacy settings. When you turn Location Services off completely, none of your apps will be able to track or use your location. Here’s how to turn off Location Services on iPhone and iPad:

Open the Settings app, and tap Privacy & Security.
Tap Location Services.
Tap the toggle next to Location Services to turn it off.
Tap Turn Off to turn Location Services off completely.

That's how to turn off Location Services on iPhone. If you need to know how to turn on Location Services later, simply follow the same steps to re-enable the toggle. If you want most of your apps not to use Location Services but realize some apps, like Maps, need Location Services to work, you can instead turn Location Services on or off on an app-by-app basis.

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