When you use a map app to find the new restaurant your friend recommended, or your phone's browser to check the price of something you saw while window shopping, you could be unwittingly allowing ...

Here are some tips to make sure location tracking is kept to a minimum: App permissions Head to your phone’s control panel to check permissions.

In any case, you might not want every app to know this, so you can tell your phone to only share its general location. On Android phones, turn off the Location Accuracy setting for all apps.

Here are some tips to make sure location tracking is kept to a minimum: App permissions Head to your phone’s control panel to check permissions.

Here are some tips to make sure location tracking is kept to a minimum: App permissions Head to your phone's control panel to check permissions.

How to block your phone from tracking your location There are so many possible ways for smartphones — and other devices like smartwatches — to track our location that it’s hard to provide an ...

Phones use various signals to find your location, including cell tower pings, Wi-Fi access points, Bluetooth and GPS. Here are some tips to make sure location tracking is kept to a minimum.