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3. Touch the item you want to sync or edit.
Location Settings
Your Location settings menu lets you select how your phone determines its location (using the
wireless network, GPS satellites, both, or neither).
Location Setting
Your phone is equipped with a Location setting for use in connection with location-based
services.
The Location feature allows the network to detect your position. Turning Location off will hide
your location from everyone except 911.
Note: Turning on Location will allow the network to detect your position using GPS technology,
making some Sprint applications and services easier to use.
To enable your phone's Location setting feature:
1. With two fingers, swipe down from the status bar, and then touch
2. Touch the ON/OFF switch to turn location services on and off.
3. Under Location sources, select the location mode you want. For example, for a better
estimate of your location, choose High accuracy. To save battery power, choose
Battery saving.
When you turn the Location setting feature on, the phone displays the
bar. When you turn Location setting off, the phone displays the
Important: Turning off a location service means no applications on your phone will collect your
location data through that location service. However, third party applications may collect — and
your phone may continue to provide — location data through other services, including through
Wi‑Fi and signal triangulation.
Google's Location Reporting
Select this option if you want to allow Google to collect anonymous location data or to allow
certain apps to determine your location.
1. With two fingers, swipe down from the status bar, and then touch
2. Touch Google Location Reporting.
3. Touch Location Reporting and Location History to turn these settings on or off.
Security Settings
Use the Security settings to help increase your phone security, privacy, and more.
Settings
> Location.
icon on the status
icon.
> Location.
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