Disabling location services can enhance your privacy or extend battery life, but it can make your phone less convenient. You can turn location services on or off from the Settings app on an iPhone or ...

Location services are what Android 12 uses to find out where you are. Your Android phone can then use this information for anything from Google Maps, Find My, Uber, Yelp, Android Auto, and many other ...

The very best smartphones have become incredibly capable of tasks that involve computing, photography, and communication. An aspect where phones also excel at, but that most people take for granted, ...

Do you ever feel like your apps are constantly spying on you, knowing where you live and what you are doing? You're not alone — and that's because they probably are. Apps have collected so much data; ...

Karandeep Singh Oberoi is a Durham College Journalism and Mass Media graduate who joined the Android Police team in April 2024, after serving as a full-time News Writer at Canadian publication ...

Your cellular network can determine your device’s location using a network-initiated location request. Your device’s privacy settings do not impact whether this request is honored. However, Android 15 ...

Location data tracking is prevalent in the tech world to ubiquity, so learning how to control that — in case you need or prefer to — on an Android phone or tablet is important. Now, the reasons that ...

Katherine Haan, MBA, is a Senior Staff Writer for Forbes Advisor and a former financial advisor turned international bestselling author and business coach. For more than a decade, she’s helped small ...

Google is rolling out the Android 16 QPR3 Beta 1 update to compatible Pixel devices, and among the build’s headline features is a new privacy-related feature: a location indicator (via Android ...