Cell phone privacy

[LPS]

I just read that most cell phones have tracking turned on for the apps.  We don't even realize it.  You can turn it off.  It was on on my phone and I didn't know it.  Go to settings.  Then privacy.  Then tracking apps.  If it is on turn it off unless you want everyplace you have explored to track you.  It really slows down phones due to all of the tracking going on.  Then restart your phone.  Always say don't track when asked.

[roony]

I know who you are and I know where you've been.

[Leech~~]

I just read that most cell phones have tracking turned on for the apps.  We don't even realize it.  You can turn it off.  It was on on my phone and I didn't know it.  Go to settings.  Then privacy.  Then tracking apps.  If it is on turn it off unless you want everyplace you have explored to track you.  It really slows down phones due to all of the tracking going on.  Then restart your phone.  Always say don't track when asked.

Did that 2 days after getting my new spangled internets phony! 

[LPS]

Everyone of my friends that I texted this too had the "allow tracking by apps" allowed on their Iphones.  Check it if you haven't.  It sounds like every phone sold has that turned on. 

[fishwidow]

You might want to go one step further. Go to settings, privacy settings, system services, and significant locations. You can turn that off so it doesn’t keep track of places you go to regularly. Not saying it’s a devious plot, but why do they need to know where I go regularly? 

[LPS]

So FW just asking.  So what if I get lost in the woods cuz I am following someone on here ??? and we get lost?  Will my phone still be trackable to find me?

[glenn57]

  i;m not so sure anyone really wants to know where i go!!!!!!!!!

[LPS]

They already know and it ain't pretty.   

[snow1]

Good info LPS,I was clueless to this and yes my tracking app was on.

thanx,

[Steve-o]

10:03 AM - Someone named Steve-o is at the liquor store on 4th and Grand for the third time this week.

[mike89]

 

[LPS]

That's our Steve-O...   

[LPS]

You might want to go one step further. Go to settings, privacy settings, system services, and significant locations. You can turn that off so it doesn’t keep track of places you go to regularly. Not saying it’s a devious plot, but why do they need to know where I go regularly?

I just did that and there were two things there to turn off so apps and other people can track you.  There is still a find my phone thing there.

[snow1]

Well the down side is using my phone gps,must engage tracker to use.

[roony]

The upside for me is nobody gives a damn where I am anyway.

[roony]

A lady at work was telling me how she tracks her kids by cell phone location. I'm glad they didn't have that option in my day.

[Leech~~]

So FW just asking.  So what if I get lost in the woods cuz I am following someone on here ??? and we get lost?  Will my phone still be trackable to find me?

This is the only down side I see of turning it off.  They have been able to find lost or stranded folks by their cell phone signals. I do have mine turned off though. Plus, I don't want anyone knowing all the questionable web sites I go to, like this one!! 

[mike89]

A lady at work was telling me how she tracks her kids by cell phone location. I'm glad they didn't have that option in my day.

for darn sure!!!!   

[LPS]

Oh man you got that right.  We were never where we were supposed to be.  That is why it was so much fun.