Where is location services on iphone 4

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Your iPhone uses information from your cell service, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and GPS to pinpoint its location, and since you almost always have your phone on you, your location as well. Location data is useful for some apps for example, if you want to order food and necessary for others, like maps or ride-shares. Here, you can toggle location access for a number of things, including Wi-Fi, time zone, emergency calls, and Apple News and App Store ads that are relevant to your location.

To the left of some of the service toggles, you may see a small arrow. A hollow arrow means the item may have access to your location under certain conditions; a purple arrow means the item has recently used your location, while a gray arrow means it used your location sometime in the last 24 hours.

If you want to truly go off the grid, you can disable location services to prevent your phone from collecting any location data at all:. If you have iOS 13 or later, you can use the Find My app to share your location with family and friends. It will then start sharing your location. You can have your phone send out recurring notifications as well. You can notify the person when you arrive at or leave a specific location, and send the notification just once or every time you arrive or leave for example, if you want to let somebody know every day when you get home from work.

Update September 17th, , AM ET: This article was originally published on December 12th, , and has been updated to account for differences in iOS and in available services. Subscribe to get the best Verge-approved tech deals of the week.

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