If you are wondering if your iPhone is tracking or not, well, the answer to that question is that it does. As iPhone wants to further improve its AI through Siri and Apple maps, it does keep track of your frequent locations or it calls it the significant locations. It will have a list of all the locations that you frequently go to and keep it as a record to further help Apple to customise your iPhone’ experience. Here we show you how do you want to see the location history of which your iPhone has helped to track and record for you.
WHY FIND YOUR LOCATION HISTORY ON YOUR IPHONE?
Here are some of the top reasons why some people want to find your location history on your iPhone:-
TO KEEP TRACK OF WHERE YOU OFTEN GO – Sometimes it helps you to keep track of places where you often go so you can refer to it later or use it as a guide to other people
TO KEEP TRACK OF OTHER PEOPLE’S OFTEN VISITED PLACE – If you have access to other people’s iPhones or your spouse or children, you would be able to know which places they often go just in case if there are some emergencies.
So, if you are interested to learn how to know your significant locations on your iPhone, here are the steps.
Step 1
In your iPhone, go to Settings
Step 2
In Settings, tap at “Privacy”
Step 3
In the Privacy settings, go to “Location Services”
Step 4
At the Location Services, scroll down and tap at “System Services”
Step 5
At the System Service, go to “Significant Locations”
Step 6
At Significant Locations, look at the “History” location that your iPhone has tracked and listed here. Tap to any location to get more details
Step 7
This will show you the date and how many times you come to this place or location.
You can also see the location on a map here as shown.
So, there you have it – Simple steps on how you can find the location history on your IPhone or other people’s iPhone. Please leave us a comment below on what are the reasons do you want to know the significant locations for.
If you do not want your iPhone to be tracked, you need to know which location settings in your iPhone that needs to be turned off. Some settings completely blocked any location data from transmitting from your iPhone and there are some settings that only partially limit the location tracking of your iPhone. Here we are going to show you the top 7 location settings that are in your iPhone and the steps on how to turn it off.
If you are interested to know how, here are the steps.
#1 TURN OFF LOCATION SERVICES
Location Services is the GPS services provided on your iPhone. This allows all the features that require a GPS location to be active if you have enabled the location services in the settings. You can disable the location services if you do not want your iPhone to be tracked via the GPS.
Here are the steps.
Step 1
In your iPhone, go to Settings
Step 2
In your Settings, go to “Privacy”
Step 3
In “Privacy” settings, go to “Location Services”
Step 4
Push the green button at Location Services to the left to disable it
Step 5
A pop-up menu will be shown. Tap “Turn Off” to confirm
The button of your Location Services will no longer be green. This means your Locations Services has been turned off
#2 USE AIRPLANE MODE
Airplane mode is a quick feature where it will allow your iPhone to disconnect not just your location services, but as well as your internet connection. This will limit the ability of your iPhone to be tracked.
Here are the steps.
Step 1
In your iPhone, go to your Settings and go to “Airplane Mode”
Step 2
At the “Airplane Mode”. Tap the button to the left to make it green
Your iPhone will now be in Airplane Mode and therefore disabling any location tracking
#3 TURN OFF “FIND MY IPHONE”
The “Find My iPhone” feature is one of the most important features to be used if you have lost your iPhone. However, if you do not want your iPhone to be tracked even If you have lost it, here are the steps on how you can disable this function.
Step 1
At the Location Services, tap at “Share My Location”
Step 2
At “Find My” menu, tap at “Find My iPhone”
Step 3
At “Find My iPhone”, push the green button to the left to disable the function
Step 4
A pop-up menu will be shown requesting your Apple ID password
Fill in your Apple ID password to proceed to disable the “Find My iPhone”
#4 DISABLE IPHONE OFFLINE FINDING
Even if your iPhone is not connected to the internet, your iPhone can still be tracked via the Bluetooth connection.
Here are the steps on how you can disable this Bluetooth location tracking feature.
Step 1
At “Find My iPhone” menu settings, go to “Enable Offline Finding” and push the button to the left to disable it
Step 2
A pop-up menu will be shown. Tap “Disable” to proceed
#5 DISABLE IPHONE FROM SENDING LAST LOCATION
Your iPhone can no longer be tracked once it is turned off or not connected to the internet. However, it can still show the last time it was discoverable via the internet.
Here are the steps on how to limit your iPhone from sending its last location.
Step 1
At “Find My iPhone” settings, go to “Send Last Location”
Step 2
Disable the “Send Last Location” by pushing the button to the left
#6 DISABLE LOCATION ALERTS
Your iPhone can also send location alerts where it will show your iPhone location in a map.
Here is how to disable this.
Step 1
Go to “Location Services” settings, tap at “Location Alerts”
Step 2
At “Show Map in Location Alerts”, push the button to the left to disable it
#7 DISABLE APPS FROM SHARING LOCATION
If you do not want to block your iPhone from location sharing, you can also just select which specific apps in your iPhone that be blocked from sharing your iPhone’s location.
Here are the steps.
Step 1
At the “Privacy” settings, go to “Location Services”
Step 2
At Location Services, scroll down to see the list of apps that uses Location Services.
Tap at Apps that are listed as “Always”
Step 3
Change the settings from “Always” to “While Using the App” or to “Never”
This will disable the apps from sending your iPhone location to a third-party services
So, there you have it – Top seven iPhone location settings and how you can disable or turn it off. Please leave us a comment below on what are the most common location settings that you would normally use.
You try to find your missing iPhone but you just realized that it is probably offline and not connected to the internet. So, how you are going to find your iPhone using the “Find My iPhone” app? Fortunately, Apple has considered the possibility that your iPhone might not be connected to the internet once it is gone missing. Therefore the only way you can trace back your iPhone is using other existing technology such as Bluetooth connection. Here we are going to show you the step-by-step approach on how you can find your iPhone even when it is offline.
HOW DOES IT WORK?
The iPhone “Offline Finding” feature uses Bluetooth connection to communicate with nearby Apple devices that have the Bluetooth enabled. This is like asking other Apple devices to help track your iPhone if it is nearby them. By using this channel, your iPhone does not need to rely on the internet connection to be found by “Find My iPhone” app. As long as your iPhone is turned on, other Apple devices can help track the location of your iPhone.
So, if you are interested to know about this function, here are the details.
HOW TO ENABLE OFFLINE FINDING
By default settings, this function is enabled automatically. However, you can always check if it is enabled or not by using these steps.
Step 1
In your iPhone, go to “Settings”
Step 2
In your Settings, go to “Privacy”
Step 3
In “Privacy” settings, go to “Location Services”
Step 4
In Location Services, tap at “Share My Location”
Step 5
At “Find My” menu, tap at “Find My iPhone”
Step 6
Make sure the “Enable Offline Finding” is turned on
HOW TO FIND IPHONE WHEN IT IS OFFLINE
So, once you have that function enabled, you can confidently track your iPhone by logging into your iCloud services using either your laptop or your friend’s phone.
The device will show “Offline” if it is not connected to the internet
Step 3
Tap at “Notify me when found”
By enabling this, Apple will notify you when the iPhone is turned on. If there are nearby Bluetooth connection, it will track the location even though the iPhone is not connected to the internet.
So, there you have it – Simple explanation on how you can track your iPhone when it is missing or stolen even when it is offline. Please leave us a comment below on what other ways you have used to track your iPhone.
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