iOS 26's Visited Places Feature Is Logging Everywhere You Go. Here's How to Stop It
iOS 26 landed in September with a long list of headlining features -- Liquid Glass, call screening, Apple Intelligence updates -- but tucked away into the Maps app is a tool that deserves a closer look before you tap through the setup prompts. Visited Places is a new feature that logs the restaurants, shops, parks and landmarks you physically visit, organizing them into a searchable history you can browse by date, category or city. Apple says the data is end-to-end encrypted and inaccessible to the company, but if you'd rather your iPhone not keep a running log of your movements, here's how to disable it.
This feature could be useful if you want to remember a restaurant or store you visited a few weeks ago. Apple promises(PDF) that it can't access these locations, and you can delete them from the app if you want. But if you don't want...
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