Turn off Significant Locations on Apple iOS 17
Location
Sensitivity 5/5
Default: On
Phones / Apple iOS 17 / Significant Locations
Your device tracks the places you visit most often to provide tailored routing and system suggestions. According to Apple, this information is end-to-end encrypted and cannot be read by the company.
- Goes to
- Apple
- Default
- On
- Control
- Can be switched off
- Effort
- a few seconds
How to do it
Go to Settings, tap Privacy & Security, select Location Services, scroll down to System Services, tap Significant Locations and toggle it off.
Usually found under: Settings > Privacy & Security > Location Services > System Services > Significant Locations
Menu names may differ by device and version.
What you lose
You will lose predictive traffic routing and automated location memories in Photos.
What is collected
Frequent locations, visit times, transport methods, timestamps.
It is intended to provide useful location-directed services such as predictive traffic routing and photo memories.
Retention is not stated here. The sensitivity rating is this site's own estimate.