Your every move tracked: How to remove Apple and Google’s location data

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Your every move tracked: How to remove Apple and Google’s location data
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It’s no secret anymore. Nearly everything you do online is tracked or recorded and used to learn more about you.

Pick a date from a couple of years ago just for fun. You’ll see a blue bar if a trip was recorded. Click a day to see everywhere you went, down to the time and mileage. If your photos are synced to your account, you can see any pics you took at your destination, home, or anywhere else you went that day. YouShutterstockMaybe you enjoyed the walk down memory lane. Or perhaps it gave you the creeps. You can adjust your settings to stop Google from tracking all your trips.

Note: Google saves where you go even when you aren’t using a specific Google service. That means you don’t even have to have Maps active as long as you’ve OK’d location reporting.To completely delete your location history data, click on the Auto-delete option. You can choose to auto-delete the data older than three months, older than 18 months or older than 36 months. You can manually delete anything before that.based on your history or trips for things like making your commute easier. Your location may still be saved when you use other Google services.Like Google, recent destinations are saved in the Apple Maps app, making them easy to find later. Places like your home, work, and favorite coffee shop may be saved to your favorites.Open Apple Maps.

You can, however, stop sharing your location with all apps and services if you’d like. That includes Apple Maps.

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