How to disable app location access on Samsung Galaxy phones

When you use any application for the first time, your phone will ask you for various permissions such as location. But permitting location access to certain apps is not safe. If you have realized it now and want to disable app location access on your Samsung phone, you can do it in a few simple steps mentioned inside this story.

Your Samsung smartphone includes GPS to track real-time location data. Usually, people don’t mind Google Maps using their phone’s location to provide driving directions, but at the same time, they don’t want games, social media, or other apps to share their location.

However, if you have mistakenly permitted location service access to such applications, you can control which apps can access and use your Galaxy phone’s location and when. Samsung provides you with an easy way to disable app location access on Galaxy devices. You can check it out below.

How to disable app location access:

If you want to disable certain app location access on your Samsung smartphone, just tap and hold its ‘icon‘ on the home or app screen for a second. A pop-up menu will appear. Tap on the ‘App info‘ icon (i button).

Next, visit the ‘Permission‘ section in the app info and tap on ‘Location‘. Finally, select the ‘Don’t allow‘ option and it’s done.

Moreover, in case you want to know which of your apps have access to location, tap on the ‘See all apps with this permission’ option on the same page where you have disabled this permission and the list of your installed applications that have access to the location will appear. You can now easily disable location service for those apps.