In today’s age, most people are ready to store their entire lives on cloud servers—photos, credit card details, and more. This often makes life easier by providing quick access to multiple things, but it also requires using complex passwords for banking and shopping services, which many people do.
However, surprisingly, we often overlook a simple setting that is crucial for privacy: location tracking. Yes, with a minor change in your smartphone’s settings, you can significantly protect your privacy.
Experts say that most people generally keep their location tracking turned on—not just when using location-tracking apps, but all the time. Think about it: you return home every night and go to the office every morning, places that don’t change. Your location is private, but keeping tracking on all the time allows multiple apps to access it.
That means every app you’ve allowed to access your location, but do they really need this information? Experts emphasize that it’s up to you whether to share your location all the time or only when necessary. If you give location access to apps for even trivial purposes, it could be a privacy risk. To protect your privacy, it’s better to turn off location sharing and only turn it on when necessary.
Experts also advise against sharing photos of yourself or loved ones while tagging the real-time location. For example, sharing a photo with a location tag means you’re not home, something anyone on social media can know.
So, to keep your personal details safe, turn on location sharing only when necessary, and turn it off afterward.
