A Map in Your iPhone Is Tracking You. Here’s How to Zap It

Buried in your iOS location settings is a feature called “Frequent Locations.” This is plotting the places you often go, including complete addresses and even a map. If something about that feels not great to you, here’s how to find and disable it.


1. Head to Settings.

2. Choose Privacy, and then Location Services.

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3. At the bottom of the list of apps, you’ll find System Services—select this.

4. Here you’ll see everything the iPhone takes liberties using location for. At the bottom is Frequent Locations. Hit this.

5. Boom: your history. If you hit something on this list, you’ll get a map of them, showing you dotted across it.

6. So let’s clear it out. Back out from one of the locations you selected, and at the bottom of this list, choose Clear History.

7. Now, at the top, toggle Frequent Locations off.

The more you know, right?