How to stop Google from tracking your location on Android?

The company’s network of interrelated apps and services record a great deal of personal information about you, such as your search history as well as your mobile device’s location.

Google makes use of location data to improve the experience on its services — like providing location-based search results, tracking real-time traffic, location data for your photos and more.

While these services are enhanced to a large extent because of Google’s location tracking, users may feel the need to disable to same because of privacy concerns.

In case you don’t want Google to track your Android phone, you can easily disable the same. Read on to know more.

How to disable your Android phone’s location tracker for all apps

1. Tap on the Settings app on your Android phone.

2. Tap on the “Location” option on your device

3. You can turn off the feature at the top of the page by swiping the button to the left. It should change from ‘On’ to ‘Off’.

Note: Disabling the location toggle will stop every app on your device from sending or receiving location data.

You can also turn off the Location History feature by visiting your Google account. By doing the same, location tracking for all Google apps and services will be disabled with a single swipe.

How to turn off Google’s ‘Location History’ setting

1. Go to the Settings app on your device and tap on “Google.”

2. Select the ‘Manage your Google Account’ option.

3. Once you are inside your account page, tap “Privacy & personalisation.”

4. In the Activity controls section, tap “Location History.”

5. Switch off Location History by swiping the button to the left.