Turn off Significant Locations on Apple iOS 18
Location
Sensitivity 5/5
Default: On
Phones / Apple iOS 18 / 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
Open Settings, tap Privacy & Security, choose Location Services, scroll to System Services, select Significant Locations, and switch 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
Predictive traffic updates and location-based automated photo albums will be disabled.
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.