About
About this site
TurnOffLocation is a reference for one moment: the phone is in your hand, the setting is open in another app, and you want the path, the consequence, and what to do next.
What is on it
One card per switch. A card names the exact menu chain as the company prints it, the release it was read against, the date it was read, and a three-row readout of who can still see your position once the switch is off. Above the readout, where the switch affects another person, sits the sentence this site exists for: what the company documents about whether they are told.
How a card earns its stamp
- The company's own help page first. A path read off Apple, Google, Snap, Meta, Life360, TikTok, WhatsApp or Microsoft is tier 1, and the page is archived here on the day it was read, because help centres get reorganised and a link plus a date is not a record.
- Two independent guides, flagged on the card. Where a company documents nothing, two reputable technology publications agreeing on the same path is tier 2, and the card says "not from the vendor's page" so you can weigh it. Monitoring apps, anti-spy tools and forum threads are never a source here.
- Nothing sourced means the card shrinks. When no path can be read off a page, the card drops to the method that always works — taking the app's location permission away in the phone's own settings — and says so. A guessed path is the one thing this site will not ship.
On notifications
Where a company documents that the other person is told, this site quotes it. Where a company documents what the other person sees instead — a stale pin, a "stopped sharing" line, a paused label — this site reports that. Where a company says nothing, the card says "not documented" and then says what is documented. It never promises that nobody will know, because no company promises that.
Independent
An independent reference. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Apple, Google, Meta, Snap, Life360, TikTok or Microsoft.
There is no affiliate arrangement on this site. The tools that fill this corner of search — the ones that promise to put your phone somewhere it is not — are out of scope here, and none of them is linked, named or described on any page beyond the one line on each app guide that says so.
Keeping it current
Apple and Google ship a release every September; the apps move their settings whenever they like. Every card carries its stamp in plain sight, so a card that has gone stale is obvious on sight. The full sweep runs in the two weeks after each September release, and a card is re-read whenever the app it describes ships a location feature.