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Find my switch

For anyone done being tracked

The easiest way to turn off location

The exact switch for every app and device, whether the other person gets told, and what still gives your position away afterwards.

Find the switch

Pick the app and the phone in your hand. The card beside it is the cell itself: the path, the stamp, and who can still see you.

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Stop sharing with one person

inside the Find My app
Path
  1. Find My
  2. People
  3. the person
  4. Stop Sharing My Location

From the vendor’s own page · iOS 17 and later as named on Apple's page (published 2025-12-19), read 2026-09-17 · checked 2026-09-17 · source: Apple Support — Share your location with iPhone, Apple Personal Safety User Guide — Find My and location sharing

Do they get told?Apple says the person you stop sharing with won't be notified. Apple's Personal Safety guide adds that they may notice you've stopped, and that on earlier operating systems they may receive a notification in Messages.
Who can still see you
Off
That one person
Your location disappears from their Find My, Maps, Contacts and Messages. Everyone else you share with still sees you.
Still on
Your other shares and every app
Only one share changed. Share My Location and Location Services stay on for everything else.
Still visible
The network
Your carrier and any site you open still get a rough position from cell towers and your IP address.

Covers the apps people actually ask about

What every page carries

The switch, the stamp, and who can still see you

Companies document the toggle. Almost nobody documents what happens next. Every cell on this site prints the exact settings path, the release it was checked against, the date it was read, and three rows on who can still see your position afterwards.

See the Find My guide How this site checks

Pause sharing with one person until tomorrow

inside the Find My app
Path
  1. Find My
  2. People
  3. the person
  4. More
  5. Hide Location

From the vendor’s own page · Current iOS as documented in Apple's Personal Safety guide (published September 2026), read 2026-09-17 · checked 2026-09-17 · source: Apple Personal Safety User Guide — Find My and location sharing

Do they get told?What that person sees while your location is hidden is not documented for Hide Location specifically. Apple does document that sharing automatically resumes the next day, and, for stopping in general, that people you shared with may notice you've stopped.
Who can still see you
Off
That one person, until tomorrow
Your location is hidden from them for the rest of the day. Apple documents that sharing resumes by itself the next day.
Still on
The share itself, and every app
This pauses the share rather than ending it. Location Services and your other shares are unchanged.
Still visible
The network
Your carrier and any site you open still place you roughly by cell tower and IP address.

Hide Location is a pause. To end a share for good, use Stop Sharing My Location above.

Built for the moment you are holding the phone

Three things, in the order you need them

The exact path

Every menu name, in order, as it reads on the screen. Not a paragraph you have to translate while you tap.

Do they get told?

What the app documents about notifications, stated plainly. Where a company is silent, the card says so instead of guessing.

Who can still see you

This app, other apps on the phone, and the network. Three rows on every cell, so "off" never means more than it does.

Checked, stamped, refreshed

Every cell is read off the company's own page

Apple, Google, Snap, Meta and Life360 move their settings every year. Each card carries the release it was read against and the date it was read. A path that cannot be sourced shrinks to the method that always works, and never to a guess.

How the checking works
12apps at launch
6device hubs
93sourced cells
0guessed paths

Know who can still see you.

Off is rarely all the way off. The readout tells you what changed and what did not.

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Questions people ask before they tap

Can someone see if I turn off my location?

It depends on the app. Apple says "The person that you stop sharing with won't be notified", while Life360 says your Circle sees a "Location Sharing Paused" label under your name. Snapchat, Instagram and Google Maps document what the other person's screen shows and say nothing at all about notifying them.

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Does airplane mode turn off location?

No. Airplane mode is a switch for radios: Apple's page says it "turns off all radios except for Bluetooth", and Google's says Wi-Fi and Bluetooth go off with it. Neither company's airplane-mode page mentions Location Services, GPS or location of any kind.

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Does Find My notify when you turn off location?

No, and Apple states it in one sentence: "The person that you stop sharing with won't be notified." Apple's Personal Safety guide adds that the people you previously shared with "may notice that you've stopped", and that on earlier operating systems "they may receive a notification in Messages that you stopped sharing."

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How this site checks

Vendor pages first, always

  • Tier 1: the company's own help page, archived on the day it was read
  • Tier 2, flagged on the card: two independent guides that agree
  • Not documented: said out loud, never taken from a forum thread
  • Every card prints the release it was checked against and the date

Independent

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An independent reference. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Apple, Google, Meta, Snap, Life360, TikTok or Microsoft.

It reports what those companies document, and stamps every cell with the release it was checked against.

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Devices

Start from the phone in your hand

iOS 27 · iPadOS 27 iPhone & iPad One master switch, one switch per app, and a precise-or-approximate choice underneath each. Most people want the second one. Android 17 Android Android keeps three separate switches: Use location for the whole phone, one location permission for each app, and a precise-or-approximate choice under any app you have allowed. Google documents that with device location off, emergency location services or your mobile carrier can still send your device's location to emergency responders when you call or text an emergency number. macOS 27 Golden Gate Mac One switch in System Settings turns Location Services off for the whole Mac, and every app and system service under it has its own. Sharing your location with people is a different switch again, inside Find My. Apple says that even with Location Services off, third-party applications and websites may still use other ways to determine your location. Windows 11 Windows Windows has one switch for the whole device and a second one for your user account, with the list of apps that may use your location underneath. Microsoft says desktop apps do not support per-app control, and that a limited set of Windows features still use your IP address for your area when location services is off. watchOS 27 Apple Watch The watch has its own Location Services switch at Settings › Privacy & Security › Location Services, and Apple says the privacy settings you change on the paired iPhone are applied to the watch as well. Sharing your location with people is a different switch again, and it belongs to your Apple Account rather than to the watch. Apple documents that when a cellular Apple Watch is sharing and the iPhone is not with you, Find My shows the location of the watch. Chrome · Safari · Firefox · Edge Browsers This is the permission a website asks for, which is a different switch from your device's own location setting. Each browser keeps its own list: block every site from asking, or take the permission back from one site. Microsoft and Mozilla both say a site can still estimate roughly where you are from your IP address.

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