- Are you aware that somebody could potentially
get your precise home address
by the pictures you sent them from your iPhone?
Ooh, yeah.
In this video, I'm gonna show you how to shut that down,
and better understand your iPhone's location settings.
Stay tuned, to the video.
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So, as I alluded to in my introduction,
people can actually, potentially find out
your exact home location from the pictures
that you take with your iPhone.
So I'm going to help you better understand
the iPhone's location setting,
and how to shut the creepy stalker people down
from tracking you at your house.
So, from the home screen, you wanna go to the settings app.
And then once you get into that settings app,
you wanna scroll down to where it says, privacy,
and click on it.
And then, here you wanna tap on location searches.
Now, right now I have it toggled on.
So, so many apps in my iPhone,
have access to my location data.
So we're gonna tap on location searches.
However, if you want to make sure
that none of these apps can
access your location data at all,
obviously you wanna turn location services off.
But, once we click into location services,
you've got the little toggle there,
and you've got location alerts,
that can bring you different alerts,
depending on where you are.
But then, if you scroll down,
there is a list of a bunch of apps that have your location.
Now, the cool thing about the way iOS does location,
is that there are special settings
within the location setting,
that you can do to regulate how much access,
these apps have to your location data.
So we're gonna go into the camera,
which I was alluding to earlier.
So right now I have, never.
So, the reason why I have the setting toggled
to never with the camera is written in the fine print below.
It says, app explanation.
Your location is used to tag
where photos and videos are taken
which improve photo search and memories.
I mean, it improves photo search and memory,
but it can also give potential predators,
access to your home data,
or it allows them to track you
wherever you have been,
if you are sending picture from your iPhone.
So you never wanna have this on.
But there's other options in here too,
like at a certain time, or while using the the app.
Now we go back out here,
to the general page for location settings.
Most of these I have toggled to, while using the app.
So why Vyyyper, would I wanna have this on, ever?
Well, if you're using an app like Apple Maps or Google Maps
then obviously those applications rely heavily
on knowing your location,
so they can give you the best location data
while you're mapping in real time.
So, if you have a Google Map or an Apple Map,
you wanna have the location set to always,
or while using so that you can get that real time,
accurate location data.
But for certain applications like the camera,
I do not want no creeper tracking where I've been.
So I make sure I turn it off.
Also when you first get any phone,
whether it be an iPhone or an Android,
the moment you take that first picture,
it'll ask you if you wanna have,
if you wanna turn on geotagging or geolocation.
Always turn it off, unless you like people tracking you
by the metadata in your photos, always turn it off.
It's the first thing that pops up,
when you take a picture on a new phone,
whether it be the iPhone or an Android,
it will ask if you want that picture geotagged.
Hell no, you don't want that picture geotagged.
Future editing Vyyyper here.
Now there's another toggle in the location setting
called precise location.
If you want these app to know your location
to the precise centimeter,
then you might wanna turn that toggle on.
But, if you want them knowing your general location,
but not the precise location that you might be in,
then you can toggle that off.
And then it will give them your approximate location,
but it won't be Uber accurate, down to the nano centimeter.
So do with that information what's you will.
But Vyyynation, that was just a quick premier,
of Highway 14 location settings.
Let me know.
Did you understand the way your phone tracks your location?
Did this video help you better understand location settings,
and how to use them?
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