[Tips] How to Turn off Location Services on HONOR 8X

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After obtaining the location information permission, apps can obtain your location at any time. If your location information is obtained by a malicious app, you may be at risk of harm or fraud. You can enable or disable location services as needed and regularly monitor and manage the allowed permissions for your apps to protect your privacy and security.

Enable or disable location services: Open Tips-How-to-Turn-off-Location-Services-on-HONOR-8X Settings, go to Security & privacy-> Location access, and enable or disable Access my location. When location services are enabled, you can also set the appropriate location mode. When location services are disabled, apart from pre-installed software, your phone will stop all apps and services from collecting and using your location information. The system will ask you to enable location services when you attempt to use these apps.

The location mode has three options:

Use Wi-Fi and mobile networks: Calculates your phone’s location using carrier base station location information or nearby Wi-Fi router location information. The accuracy of the location information depends largely upon location information gathered from the base station or Wi-Fi network. Accuracy normally ranges from 100 meters to several kilometers. Network positioning has low accuracy, but allows for positioning while indoors and uses less battery power.

Use GPS, Wi-Fi, and mobile networks: Combines the benefits of GPS positioning and network positioning for accurate indoor and outdoor positioning.

Use GPS only: Only uses satellites found by your phone’s GPS to determine your position. No network connection is needed. GPS satellite positioning is more accurate but also uses more battery. It is accurate within tens of meters. However, indoor positioning may be inaccurate.

Note: Features may vary depending on your carrier. Huawei only uses location data to provide you with necessary functions and services, not for the purpose of identifying and collecting your private information.

Set indoor positioning assistance: Open Tips-How-to-Turn-off-Location-Services-on-HONOR-8X Settings, go to Security & privacy-> Location access-> -> Scan settings , and enable or disable Wi-Fi and Bluetooth scanning. Scanning Wi-Fi networks and Bluetooth devices will improve the accuracy of indoor positioning.