Turn off GPS on the iPhone

Turning off GPS on your iPhone is very easy, and if you aren't using it, it may help improve your phone's battery life, and also making sure that hackers or someone can't view your location, as well as other apps seeing where you are!

Steps

  1. Go to your iPhone's home screen and click on the settings icon.
  2. Under settings, find "Privacy" and click on it.
  3. Click on Location Services.
  4. Turn off GPS here by turning off location services.
    • Turn off location services.
  5. Adjust individual program settings if desired. You can turn off GPS entirely by turning location services off using the on/off button at the top, or alternatively you can turn off GPS to individual apps using each individual on/off button.



Tips

  • Having GPS off might make some of your apps stop working. However, each app should alert you should there be an issue.
  • Turning your GPS off could help your device save memory.

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