Location Settings

Location Settings

Location Services uses GPS and Bluetooth (where they're available), along with crowd-sourced Wi-Fi hotspots and cellular towers to determine the approximate location of your device.
Apps won't use your location until they ask for your permission and you allow permission.

Published Date: February 16, 2021

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Turn Location Services and GPS on or off on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

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Learn how to turn Location Services and GPS on or off for individual apps.
Some apps might not work unless you turn on Location Services. 1 The first time an app needs to access your Location Services information, you'll get a notification asking for permission. Choose one of these options:
iOS and iPadOS devices might use Wi-Fi and Bluetooth to determine your location. GPS and cellular location are available on iPhone and iPad (Wi-Fi + Cellular) models.
From here, apps should provide an explanation of how the app will use your location information. Some apps might offer only two options.
With iOS 14 and iPadOS 14, some apps can use Precise Location to get to your specific location. To share only your approximate location — which may be sufficient for an app that doesn’t need your exact location — turn Precise Location off. Here's how:

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The location in maps in windows 10 is off by 40 miles. how do I change this?

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I sure wish somebody would come up with a fix for this problem. Because every time I ask for something I get a location 40 or 50 miles away from me. When I know there is one closer to me just down the street.

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same here I ve sent feedback with screenshots ...its funny cos with firefox and google maps it shows my correct location but as soon as I use the maps app weather app edge or IE11 wrong location .... I even reinstalled windows 8.1 weather maps and explorer
showed correct location ...installed windows 10 and back to wrong location spent two hours last night having a MS Tech Guy control my laptop to try and fix it ....gave up after the 2 hours saying I m the first to have this fault which reading different forums
isn't the case theres loads of people out there facing the same problem

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This is incredibly frustrating and should be fixed. Anyone listening?

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Sorry Analy, but it's 2/2/2017 and this problem still isn't fixed.
maps 5.1611.3342.0 still shows the wrong location even though my DESKTOP computer has no geo sensors and the default location is set to my home address. For a while it reflected when my isp assigned address was thought to be and then it started to vary (because
my desktop address is 192.168.1.73). now it's settled on a little town about 40 miles north of where I actually am. No amount of SETTING THE DEFAULT location changes where maps thinks I am.

Given that this exact same problem has existed for OVER 3 years do you think a solution is forthcoming?

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