Manage your Android device's location settings

You can use location-based services such as getting better local search results, like commute predictions and nearby restaurants based on your telephone's location, when you turn location on in settings.

Sympathise the location settings available on your phone

Of import: When you lot turn off location on your phone, apps and services can't go your phone's location. Yous can nonetheless get local results and ads based on your IP address.

Tip: Apps have their own settings. Larn how to manage app location settings.

Turn location on or off for your telephone

  1. Swipe down from the elevation of the screen.
  2. Touch and hold Location .

Help your phone get a more accurate location (Google Location Services a.k.a. Google Location Accurateness)

Plough your phone's location accuracy on or off

When Google Location Accuracy is on

When y'all have Google Location Accuracy turned on, your phone uses these sources to go the most accurate location:

  • GPS
  • Wi-Fi
  • Mobile networks
  • Sensors (such as accelerometer)

Google may collect location information periodically and apply this information in an anonymous way to amend location accuracy and location-based services.

When Google Location Accuracy is off

When you lot turn off Google Location Accurateness, your phone uses GPS and sensors, similar accelerometer, to determine location. GPS can be slower and less authentic than other sources.

When Google Location Accuracy is off, GPS, Wi-Fi, network, and sensor data are not used or collected by Google Location Accuracy.

For Android 12 and higher, you can manage each app's permission to access precise location. This is different from Google Location Accurateness, which is a location setting for your device that allows your telephone to use more sources for the most accurate location.  Even with Google Location Accuracy on, you can grant an app only approximate location permission if you lot don't desire to allow it access to your device's precise location.  If you turn off Google Location Accurateness, apps may non be able to go your device'south precise location. Acquire how to manage app location permissions.

Set upward Wi-Fi & Bluetooth scanning

To help apps become meliorate location info, you tin can let your telephone browse for nearby Wi-Fi access points or Bluetooth devices.

Android 12 & higher

  1. Swipe down from the summit of the screen.
  2. Affect and hold Location .
  3. Tap Location services.
  4. Plow Wi-Fi scanning and Bluetooth scanning on or off.

Android xi & lower

  1. Swipe down from the top of the screen.
  2. Touch and concur Location .
  3. Tap Wi-Fi scanning and Bluetooth scanning.
  4. Turn Wi-Fi scanning and Bluetooth scanning on or off.

Send your location in an emergency

To help first responders find yous quickly, your phone'due south location tin can be sent when you dial or text an emergency number. For example, dialing 911 in the US or 112 in Europe.

If Android Emergency Location Service (ELS) works in your country and on your mobile network, and yous haven't turned off ELS, your telephone will automatically transport its location to start responders using ELS. If ELS is off, your mobile carrier may nevertheless send the device'southward location during an emergency call or text.

Turn Android Emergency Location Service on or off

You lot can turn Emergency Location Service on or off at whatever time.

How Emergency Location Service works

ELS is only activated when yous call or text a local emergency number.

During your emergency phone call, ELS may employ Google Location Accuracy and other data to go the nigh accurate location possible for the device.

Your phone sends its location to authorized emergency partners for the purpose of helping emergency services locate you. Your location is sent directly from your telephone to emergency partners.

After a completed emergency phone call or text during which ELS was active, your telephone may send deidentified usage and analytics data to Google for the purpose of analyzing how well ELS works. This information doesn't include the location sent to authorized emergency partners, and doesn't identify you lot.

If y'all apply an older Android version

Cull location settings (Android ix.0)

To modify location settings:

  1. Open your device'southward Settings app.
  2. Tap Security & Location And thenLocation.
    • If you take a work contour, tap Advanced.

Then, choose an option:

Choose location mode (Android four.iv—8.1)

  1. Open your telephone's Settings app.
  2. Tap Security & Location and then Location.
    • If you don't find "Security & Location," tap Location.
  3. Tap Way.
  4. Select a manner:
    • High accurateness: Use GPS, Wi-Fi, mobile networks, and sensors to become the most accurate location. Use Google Location Services to help judge your telephone's location faster and more than accurately.
    • Battery saving: Use sources that use less bombardment, like Wi-Fi and mobile networks. Use Google Location Services to aid estimate your telephone's location faster and more accurately.
    • Device only: Utilise GPS and sensors. Don't employ Google Location Services to improve location accuracy. This can approximate your telephone's location more slowly and utilize more bombardment.

Choose location access (Android four.1—four.3)

You tin can control what location data your telephone can use.

  1. Open your phone's Settings app.
  2. Under "Personal," tap Location access.
  3. At the top of the screen, turn Access to my location on or off.
    • When location access is on, pick either or both of:
      • GPS satellites: Lets your phone approximate its location from satellite signals, like a GPS device in a car.
      • Wi-Fi & mobile network location: Lets your phone use Google Location Services to assist gauge its location faster, with or without GPS.
    • When location access is off:
      Your phone can't find its precise location or share it with whatsoever apps.

Tip: If yous have a tablet that more than one person uses, each person can have different location access settings.

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