You might be aware that Google and Apple track your location to provide you be location-based services. But you probably aren’t aware of the extend of this tracking. Did you know that your smartphone keeps a location history of wherever you’ve been with exact time stamps? Even the number of visits is recorded! So, your office, your home, that bar, house of that person you visited the other day; your phone knows about it all! But the fact is that there are no big concerns about this now. Both Google and Apple assure their users about the privacy issues. Apple claims that iPhone location history is only recorded on the phone and is not accessible by anybody else.
iPhone tracking feature is an extremely handy one but if you wish to find out your location history or clear it, follow me through this article. This articles tells you where exactly your iPhone location history is recorded and how you can view it.
View your iPhone location history
These are the instructions on how to view your location history on iPhone:
- Open Settings menu from your Springboard
- From the Settings menu choose Privacy
- Tap on Location Services
- Scroll down and find System Services
- In System Services choose Frequent Locations
- In Frequent Locations section look at History part
The list under the History section shows you the major areas that you have spent time in last month or so. If you choose any of them, you will see the locations on a map along with your time stamps.
If you have privacy concerns, you can switch off Frequent Locations in step 5 to stop recording iPhone location history
GPS location tracker for iPhone
iPhone comes with a built-in GPS tracker called Find My iPhone which is extremely useful in case your device is lost or stolen. To use this feature, you first need to enable it from the Settings and then you have to login to your iCloud account to track the device.
For tracking purposes, you can use Underspy GPS tracker as well which gives you a real-time monitoring experience.
