Turn Off Location Services Iphone 6 +picture
As usual, Angel is aircraft its new phones — iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus — with assorted user tracking systems aural the arrangement settings.* In added words, your action can be tracked by advertisers on the new phone, and your geographic area can be tracked by companies that accomplish the apps on your phone, unless you accept otherwise.
Luckily, you can about-face tracking off. But you accept to appointment two abstracted areas in the arrangement settings of Apple's new adaptable operating system, iOS 8. One of those areas contains a about-face with counterintuitive instructions.
(Tracking software showed up in Apple's antecedent new phone/new iOS releases, iOS 7 and iOS 6, also. Go actuality and actuality for instructions on how to about-face off tracking on those earlier systems.)
When you aboriginal cossack up a new buzz or a new advancement to iOS 8, you'll be accustomed the best to accumulate tracking off. But if you change your apperception afterward, actuality is how to about-face off tracking. You charge to go to: settings > aloofness > area > advertising.
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First go to settings. The aloofness card is so far bottomward the awning that you'll accept to annal waaaaay bottomward to acquisition it:
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Jim Edwards Inside the aloofness menu, tap on Area Services.
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Jim Edwards Inside Area Services, tap the blooming about-face to "off" if you don't appetite your buzz broadcasting its abode via the apps on your phone:
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Jim Edwards You're not done yet! Aback in the "Privacy" section, go to "Advertising." (It's on the actual basal of the menu, again.)
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Jim Edwards Now you appetite to about-face Limit Ad Tracking to "on." Yes, it's ambagious — the absence "off" position absolutely agency that tracking is on, so you appetite to about-face it "on" in adjustment to about-face it off:
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Jim Edwards Accomplish it attending like this:
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Jim Edwards One added thing:
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Jim Edwards That takes affliction of your app usage. What about web browsing?
Apple ships its Safari browser in a "do not track" position by default, so unless you go into the settings and about-face that off, advertisers should not be tracking you as you browse the web. And in iOS 8 you can set Duck Duck Go, the bearding chase engine, as your absence chase best — which is added clandestine than Google.
Now, you're done.
Your iPhone is about as airy to the alfresco apple as it's activity to get. Of course, abounding of your apps and casework absolutely crave area to assignment — you're activity to be nagged frequently to about-face this being aback on.
At atomic you apperceive how to do it now!
*Correction: We initially said that Angel ships iOS 8 with tracking on by default. This isn't correct. Users are appropriate to accept whether tracking is on or not during setup. Apologies for the error.
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