Plough Location Services and GPS on or off on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

Learn how to plow Location Services and GPS on or off for individual apps.

How to give apps permission to use your location

Some apps might not work unless you turn on Location Services.1 The starting time time an app needs to admission your Location Services data, you lot'll become a notification asking for permission. Choose one of these options:

  • Tap Allow to permit the app apply Location Services information as needed.
  • Tap Don't Allow to foreclose admission.2
  • Tap Ask Next Time to choose Always While Using App, Let Once, or Don't Allow.

iOS and iPadOS devices might use Wi-Fi and Bluetooth to determine your location. GPS and cellular location are available on iPhone and iPad (Wi-Fi + Cellular) models.

How to turn Location Services on or off for specific apps

  1. Go to Settings > Privacy > Location Services.
  2. Make sure that Location Services is on.
  3. Scroll downwardly to find the app.
  4. Tap the app and select an option:
    • Never: Prevents access to Location Services data.
    • Ask Adjacent Fourth dimension: This allows you to cull Always While Using App, Permit Once, or Don't Permit.
    • While Using the App: Allows access to Location Services only when the app or 1 of its features is visible on screen. If an app is prepare to While Using the App, yous might run into your status bar turn bluish with a message that an app is actively using your location.
    • Always: Allows access to your location fifty-fifty when the app is in the background.

From here, apps should provide an explanation of how the app will use your location information. Some apps might offer only 2 options.

How to share your specific location

With iOS xiv and iPadOS 14, some apps can utilize Precise Location to become to your specific location. To share simply your approximate location — which may be sufficient for an app that doesn't need your verbal location — plough Precise Location off. Here's how:

  1. Go to Settings > Privacy, and then select Location Services.
  2. Select an app, so plough Precise Location on or off.

Learn more about privacy and Location Services.

  1. Location Services uses GPS and Bluetooth (where they're available), along with crowd-sourced Wi-Fi hotspots and cellular towers to determine the estimate location of your device.
  2. Apps won't use your location until they inquire for your permission and you let permission.

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