Google often tracks customers’ location based mostly on the companies and apps individuals use. It even tracks utilizing IP addresses and merely turning off the placement service from the smartphone is just not sufficient. To utterly cease Google from monitoring your location, customers are supposed to show off Web & App Activity from their Google Account.
Here’s how you can do it.
Head to https://myactivity.google.com/ and login
Choose Activity Controls choice from the left navigation panel
Scroll by way of all of the actions and switch off the one you don’t need to use. Just ensure to show off the Web & App Activity and Location historical past
Here customers can even handle their location and different historical past particulars saved with Google. To do that, head again to the Myactivity homepage and select the choice ‘Delete Activity by’. A brand new popup will seem saying Delete Activity by time interval and it’ll ask customers to select from the choices — Last hour, Day, All time and Custom vary. Select one choice and click on on the Next button. Here customers can additional filter the small print based mostly on the service and delete them.
Users can even comply with the identical settings on their Android smartphones. All they should do is head to Settings ->Google ->Manage your knowledge & personalisation and search for the Activity controls choice.
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