Basically Facebook keep track your current location via Wi-Fi router or GPS, after which affixes your current location with all of your timeline posts so that all your friends can keep track of you that where you are. But beside sharing something people don’t like to share their location but Facebook does. Here’s a very simple tip to stop Facebook location history to share your current location.
Every time you share something on your Facebook wall, you’ll see a small gray coloured description showing your current location in lower left corner of status box. But by getting this little settings in your Facebook app now it is possible to put your privacy back in its place.
The main reason behind Facebook’s battery drain is that the app continuously tracking your exact location, which goes on even you leave the app. In this particular article, we’ll show you how-to stop this by simply disabling the Location History feature, in that way helping you can save your iPhone battery life even more.
Yesterday I have open the settings of my Facebook app and I came across a useful setting under Location which is provided by the Facebook since April 2014, but new for me. By default this setting is enabled.
How To Stop Facebook Location History
Actually, if you search the account and privacy settings, you will never find a location-sharing feature to turn it off. Nevertheless, it is so easy to turn it off.
- Launch your Facebook app
- At bottom of navigation pane tap on More
- Then hit Account Settings – > Location
- Simply switch off the Location History setting here
The good news is, that Facebook is not tracking my location anymore because I disable the location services completely for the Facebook app. If you need to disable the Facebook location service on your device then just navigate to Settings –> Location Services and turn this toggle off to completely disable the Facebook location service.
