How to Turn Off Location on iPhone Without Notifying

Get educated on how to turn off location on the iPhone without notifying the other person. Hide or share your location as per your choice with this exclusive guide & find solutions to stop people from tracking you:

iPhones offer their users some handy features like FaceTime, data security, screen sharing, location sharing, and more.

iPhones allow users to share their location with their contacts through Apple Maps, iMessage, and the Find My app. This allows users to track the location of a family member or friend. Parents find this feature extremely useful, as it allows them to know the exact location of their child anytime, without having to call them repeatedly.

How to Hide My Location on iPhone Without Them Knowing

Using an iPhone, you can share your location in several ways, for example:

• Share once: This way you can pinpoint a location on the map, showing your friends where you are. You can do this through Maps or Messages.
• Share on the way: This method allows users to share a map with their contacts, showing the directions and the estimated time of arrival at a specific destination.
• Share ongoing: Through this method, you can share your live location with your friends for one hour, until the end of the day, or for an indefinite period.

Sharing your location with your friends and the apps you use are quite useful. But it can also prove to be harmful at times, especially when the number of frauds and cyber crimes is at an all-time high.

Despite having several benefits, sharing your location can also be quite harmful in many ways, for example-

1. Someone, who has no good intentions towards you might use your phone without your permission to allow themselves to access your location.
2. Your privacy can be invaded

According to a report by The New York Times, some apps used by a lot of kids nowadays have location-sharing features and can leak that person’s current location to strangers, which can prove quite harmful to anyone.

So even if you are sharing your location with just your dear ones, you must be very careful. Avoid using apps that provide your location to strangers.

If you are wondering how to stop sharing your location with anyone without them getting a notification on their phone, read this article to get a step-by-step guide.

Have a glance at this table to get knowledge about each of the methods used for turning the location off on iPhone:

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How to Turn Off Location on iPhone Without Notifying Others

#1) Try blocking, then unblocking the contact. If you are sharing your location with some of your contacts and you want to stop sharing it, then you can just block that specific contact, and then unblock it. This stops location sharing.

To block a contact, you will have to do:

4. Now select Blocked Contacts

5. Now you will see the option to Add New contact to the block list. Tap on it.

6. Select the contact

Now location sharing will be stopped. To unblock the contact, follow these steps:

1. Go to Settings
2. Tap on Phone
3. Select Blocked Contacts
4. Find the contact name you want to unblock.
5. Swipe left and click on Unblock.

By following this method, location sharing will be stopped. However, the person will be notified that you have stopped sharing the location.

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#2) Turn off Location sharing with everyone. Follow these steps to turn your location sharing off with everyone.

4. Now turn off Share My Location.

This way, your location sharing will be stopped by everyone, including contacts and apps, without them getting notified.

#3) Turn off Location sharing with One Contact. If you want to stop sharing your location with just one specific contact, then follow these steps:

1. Open the Find My app on your iPhone.
2. Tap on the People option located in the bottom left corner of the screen.
3. Now you will find a list of contacts with whom you are sharing your location.
4. Find the contact name with whom you want to stop sharing your location.
5. Tap on the contact name.
6. Now tap on Stop Sharing Location and confirm it.

Once you do this, you will no longer share your location with that specific contact without notifying them. But if you will share the location with them again, they will get a notification this time.

#4) Stop sharing location with everyone using the Find My app. If you want to know how to turn location off on your iPhone without notifying anyone, then-

1. Go to Find My app.
2. Now tap on Me option located in the bottom-right corner of your screen.
3. Now turn off Share My Location.

This way, no one will then be able to access your location unless you allow them to.

You can also stop sharing your location with everyone by turning OFF Location Services. This can be done by following these steps-

1. Go to Settings on your iPhone

2. Now select Privacy & Security

3. Click on Location Services

4. Turn it OFF.

This stops all location services in your iPhone.

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You can watch this YouTube video to learn how to turn off location services on your iPhone

#5) Switch on the Airplane mode. Once you switch on the airplane mode in your phone, your phone will stop using the mobile networks. This way, no one can track your location, as long as the airplane mode is on.

Please note that the phone will still be able to stay connected to the available WiFi network, even after switching the airplane mode on. So disconnect the WiFi also, since the location is shared through the internet.

To turn on the airplane mode in your iPhone, follow these steps:

1. Go to Settings
2. Turn ON Airplane Mode.

Airplane mode can also be enabled by just scrolling down the screen and tapping on the Airplane.

I would say this is the quickest method to stop sharing your location with anyone. But, it has certain drawbacks like you won’t be able to make or receive calls and messages through your phone, and your phone won’t have internet access (unless it is connected to a Wifi network).

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#6) Use another iPhone or iPad to hide your location. If you have a second iPhone or an iPad, then you can use it to fake your current actual location.

Please note that you would need 2 iPhones or one iPhone and one iPad to hide your current location through this method.

For hiding your location with the help of another iPhone, follow these steps:

1. Login to both devices with the same Apple ID
2. Open Settings on your iPhone
3. Tap on the Apple ID, then select Find My
4. Now turn on Share My Location
5. Now on the second device, open Settings
6. Tap on the Apple ID
7. Now select Find My
8. Now tap on Use This Phone as My Location.

Now, the contacts who have access to your location will be shown the location of the second phone as your current location. So you can just leave the second phone at home or any other location and take the first phone with you and no one will know your real location.

#7) Use a Location changer app. There are multiple apps available at the App Store that allow users to show a fake location to their contacts. Some of the Location Spoofing apps for iPhone users are iToolab AnyGo, MockGo, and iMyFone AnyTo.

But, if you are a kid and you are sharing your location with your parents, then you must NEVER use such tactics to hide your location. Parents usually keep an eye on their kids so that they can rest assured that their kids are safe.

#8) Use a VPN: This is quite a popular trick of hiding your location. A VPN works by hiding your IP address and showing a different (remote) location to the online websites and other online services you use. This way, your activity data is also saved from getting exposed.

Please note that if you are sharing your location with someone through a location-sharing app, then it would most probably show them the correct location, even after using a VPN.

#9) How to turn your location off for a specific app: If you want to know how to turn your location off on your iPhone without notifying a specific app, then follow these steps-

4. There will be a Share My Location option and a list of apps underneath that have access to your location.

5. Select an app

Then tap on Never to stop sharing your location with them.

#10) Reset your phone. Although this is not the best option to stop sharing your location with your apps and contacts, it can also stop sharing your location with everyone in an emergency.

You can factory reset your iPhone by following these simple steps-

1. Go to Settings
2. Select General
3. Tap on Transfer or Reset iPhone
4. Now select Erase All Content and Settings
5. Click on Continue.

#11) How to turn off location on iPhone without notifying the other person, if you had shared the location through iMessages: If you had shared your location with someone through iMessages and want to stop sharing it now, then follow these steps:

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1. Go to the iMessages app
2. Open the conversation in which you had shared your location
3. Tap on the location information
4. Now select Stop Sharing My Location.

Now whenever that contact opens this location tab, he will be shown that your location has expired.

Are you worried someone may be tracking your location without your knowledge?

If you doubt that someone may have physical access to your phone or someone may track you through your iPhone, then you should just reset your phone. This way, if an application is downloaded on your phone or any setting change is done for tracking you, then it would get fixed.

Do you know people can get access to your location through the photos and videos you share with them?

Yes, that’s true. Some photos and videos contain location metadata, through which the location where the photo was taken, can be traced. This happens when the Camera app on your phone is allowed access to Location Services while taking the photo.

If you will open the Photos app on your iPhone and then open Albums, you’ll see an option named ‘Places Album’. Now from here, you can tap on any place in the map shown on your screen, to see photos from that place. See, your phone knows about the places where your photos and videos were taken because the image/video files contain some metadata about that location.

To remove location metadata from your images or videos on iPhone or iPad, follow these steps:

• Open the Photos app
• Open Albums
• Go to Places album
• Now tap on a photo
• Click on or swipe up
• Now select the option Adjust
• Tap on Remove Location

This will remove the location metadata from a specific image or video. You’ll have to follow this procedure for each file, to remove the location metadata.

If you wish that your future photos and videos do not collect the location data, then you’ll have to stop the Location access for the Camera app on your iPhone. To stop the Camera app from accessing Location Services, follow these steps:

• Open Settings
• Go to Privacy & Security
• Select Location Services
• Tap on Camera
• Now select Never

From now on, your photos and videos will not save the location metadata.

Benefits of Sharing Your Location With Your Contacts & Apps

1. Your dear ones will always know your whereabouts
2. Parents can track their kid’s location for safety concerns when he goes out for an outing, tuition classes, etc.
3. The apps you use can deliver region-specific content to you
4. You can find your lost phone

Read this article to learn about different ways through which iPhone users can share their location with their friends.

To share your location with one of your contacts, follow these steps:

1. Go to Find My app on your iPhone

2. Now tap on Me, located in the bottom right corner of your screen

3. Turn Share My Location on.

Here is the video on how to share location between iPhone and Android:

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Conclusion

Sharing your location with your contacts and apps must be done with caution, especially when you are a kid. Plus, you must immediately stop sharing your location with your friends-tuned enemies.

In this article, we shared several ways through which you can immediately stop sharing your location with anyone, without letting them know. The easiest of them is turning on the Airplane mode, but it stops all phone networks from making calls, and messages and using the internet.

Other methods used for this purpose are blocking and unblocking the contact, turning off location on the Find My app, using another iPhone to show a fake location, using a location-changing app, and doing a factory reset.

If you are below 18 years of age and your parents are tracking you, then I would advise you to not use any of the above-mentioned methods for hiding your location with them. Your parents are your real guides and they are the ones who care about you, that’s only why they look after your safety.