Asus Nexus 7 Nexus 7 GuideBook E-manual - Page 39

Turn off location reporting & history, Delete location history details, Location settings

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• When a Traffic card appears for home or work, touch Menu > Edit. • Open the Latitude app, find your own location, touch your name on the map, and then Location history > Change home location / Change work location. • Visit maps.google.com from a browser and open My Places. • Visit https://www.google.com/latitude/b/0/history/dashboard from a browser, click Change next to Time at Work or Time at Home, edit the address, and click Save. You can turn off and delete your location history and still use Google Now, but certain kinds of information, such as commute traffic, may be limited or won't show up at all. Turn off location reporting & history To turn off both location reporting and location history from the Google Now screen: 1. Touch Menu > Settings > Privacy and accounts > Manage location settings. This brings you to the Settings screen for Google Maps. You may have to sign in to Google Maps if you haven't done so already. 2. Touch Location settings. 3. To turn off location reporting, touch Location reporting > Do not update your location. 4. To turn off location history, uncheck Enable location history. Delete location history details Even if you turn off both location reporting and location history, your previously recorded history is still available to Google services such as Google Now. Nexus 7 Guidebook Make Search personal 33

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NEXUS 7 GUIDEBOOK
MAKE SEARCH PERSONAL
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When a Traffic card appears for home or work, touch
Menu
>
Edit.
Open the Latitude app, find your own location, touch your
name on the map, and then
Location history > Change home
location / Change work location.
Visit
maps.google.com
from a browser and open
My Places
.
Visit
from a browser, click
Change
next to Time at Work or Time at
Home, edit the address, and click
Save.
You can turn off and delete your location history and still use
Google Now, but certain kinds of information, such as commute
traffic, may be limited or won’t show up at all.
Turn off location reporting & history
To turn off both location reporting and location history from the
Google Now screen:
1. Touch
Menu > Settings > Privacy and accounts > Manage loca-
tion settings
.
This brings you to the Settings screen for Google Maps. You
may have to sign in to Google Maps if you haven’t done so
already.
2. Touch
Location settings
.
3.
To turn off location reporting, touch
Location reporting > Do
not update your location
.
4. To turn off location history, uncheck
Enable location history
.
Delete location history details
Even if you turn off both location reporting and location history,
your previously recorded history is still available to Google ser-
vices such as Google Now.