(Technewonline) Did you know that Foursquare app and many other apps on the iPhone tracking user location. If you own an iPhone device, follow the instructions below to turn off tracking users of Foursquare and other apps.
Recently, The Wall Street Journal confirmed an earlier report that Foursquare app constantly monitoring the user's location as soon as they install the application, even when the application is shut down completely. In addition, many applications other location tracking feature to track users similar to Google Maps, Airbnb, Find my friends, or applications to protect the phone from theft ...
The report notes, "the former Foursquare app requires the user to allow the application to enable" continuous "to track location. Now users can change the setting to not participate. "
Foursquare is an application first publicly tracking user location, we do not know how many such applications are silently running in your phone. Fortunately, preventing the application to automatically track the location of iPhone is quite easy.
The Steps Are As Follows:
1. On the Settings menu and click the General option.
2. In the General settings tab, scroll down to Background App Refresh option.
3. In the Background Refresh App will show the application tracking user location, click to select Enable/Disable.
In addition, you can also turn off all apps to save battery for the machine or installation options for monitoring each individual application.
Note, the application tracking user will be identified by a small blue arrow next to each application, and you can proceed to enable/disable tracking users for each application.
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