Phonandroid Android: How to deactivate the location?

Several Android applications use the location of your device to offer maximum features.Under Google's OS, you can completely deactivate its location to enter the most total secret, or choose the applications having the right to access it.This allows to sort between legitimate locations, and the others.Here's how to do the two options.

For one or more reasons that look at you, it can be practical to deactivate the location totally or partially.That is, to limit this information that certain applications.Here we describe the important steps to make it easier for your smartphone or any other Android device.Please note that the manipulations described here are made from a Huawei P20 operating under Android 8.1 Oreo.However, they are similar on a good number of smartphones.

Disable the location entirely

To completely deactivate the localization under Android, nothing could be simpler.

1.Touch “Settings” on your Android smartphone

2.Then go to “Security and confidentiality”

3.Touch “location data”

4.Disable “Access to location information”

This manipulation will make you completely invisible radars!However, this also represents a risk for your smartphone since in the event of a loss it will be impossible to find it thanks to the Google location program.In case your wish is to simply deactivate the location for certain applications, go to the next chapter.

Disable location for certain applications

From Android 6 Marchmmallow It is possible to finely manage access to the features of our smartphone, microphone, directory, camera and of course location.It is not very complicated, here is how to proceed:

1. Touchez “Paramètres”
2. Rendez-vous dans “Applications”
3. Sélectionnez l'application que vous souhaitez, dans notre exemple c'est Chrome
4. Touchez “Autorisations”
5. Retirez “Informations de localisation”

The tour is played, as you can see it's very simple.And of course you can restrict all kinds of authorizations.However, keep in mind that this will necessarily have consequences when you use the application.