How to Give Only Approximate Location to Apps on Android
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Does your weather app need to know exactly where you are? No, and neither does your news app. Imstead of giving apps accurate location, you can now give only approximate location to apps on Android. Once you give only the approximate location, apps will not get your exact location data, ever.
Location data has increasingly become one of the most common user data that many apps have access to. A navigation app such as Google Maps needs your precise location to give you directions. But a news app or a weather app does not need precise location. That’s why we can give them only approximate location access on your Android phone, just like on iPhone.
Once you give an app ‘approximate location‘ it will still get the location, but not an accurate one. Therefore, you can still have a working weather app, you can still get local news, and you can still enjoy Netflix. Here’s how to give only approximate location to apps on Android 12.
