Turn off Significant Locations on Apple iOS 26
Location
Sensitivity 5/5
Default: On
Phones / Apple iOS 26 / 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 minute or two
How to do it
Open Settings, search for Significant Locations within Privacy and Location Services, and toggle it off.
Menu names may differ by device and version.
What you lose
Personalised features such as predictive traffic and automated photo memories may not work properly.
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.