It's the ability for an application to get your physical location (i.e. determine where you are). You can check under settings>Privacy>Location Services, to see which apps have requested to see your location. On that same page you can disable any apps which you don't wish to have access to your location, or you can turn off location services entirely so that no app will be able to use it.
In general, location services are used to enhance your experience while traveling with your phone, or to give you local content inside an app. For example, with Navigon or Apple Maps you can plan routes and have the phone track where you are as you follow them. With AroundMe, you can see businesses nearby which you might want to check out such as restaurants or gas stations. With many radio streaming apps you can get the app to automatically show you local stations based on where you are. It's fine to turn location services off for apps which you don't need this functionality and yes, it will save battery life. Occasionally location services are used for other purposes such as advertising or gathering usage data. For example, the "Location-based iAds" service wants to display targeted ads to you based on where you are. I believe VizWiz and TapTapSee use location data for diagnostic/research purposes, but I'm not clear on this. You might rather turn things like this off, to save battery. Grant On 2/3/13, Regina Alvarado <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi: > What exactly is location tracking? I can guess it is finding me in different > places, but can I turn it off and still get notices? CaN I turn it off and > get better battery life? Thanks ahead of time. > > > Reggie and Brooks > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
