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Safari iPhone: How to prevent sites from requesting access to your location

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Safari iPhone: How to prevent sites from accessing your location

Sites in the Safari browser often ask you to grant them access to location services to determine where you are. However, you can turn off these site notifications on iPhone and iPad, as well as prevent Safari from accessing location services altogether. Here's how to do it.

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Safari iPhone/iPad: How to disable location access requests

Open the “ Settings ” app on your iPhone or iPad. Scroll down and select “ Safari .”

Safari iPhone: How to prevent sites from requesting access to your location

Scroll down until you see the “Settings For Websites” section. Tap “Location” there.

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Select “Deny”.

Safari iPhone: How to prevent sites from requesting access to your location
Safari iPhone: How to prevent sites from accessing your location

After that, Safari will automatically block sites from showing notifications that request your location data. Unfortunately, at the moment, Safari on iPhone and iPad doesn't allow you to maintain a whitelist of specific sites that can request your location.

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How to prevent Safari browser from accessing location services?

If you want to block Safari from accessing location services in general, you can do so.

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Open the “ Settings ” app on your iPhone or iPad and select “ Privacy .”

Safari iPhone location

Tap “Location Services”.

Select “Safari Websites”.

Tap the “ Never ” option in the “ Allow Location Access ” section

Safari iPhone location
Safari iPhone: How to prevent sites from accessing your location

After this process, websites will not be able to use location services in Safari on your iPhone or iPad.

The process is very simple and you can follow it to ban access to your location.

Source: How-to-geek

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