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why you need to Remove Facebook Posts That Show your location?

The ability to “check-in” from your current location is one of Facebook’s some features. Allow for all of your friends and family to where you have been at any given time. There is even the Nearby Friends feature that lets your friends know where you are right now.

Facebook is constantly keeping tabs on your whereabouts. No matter where you are in the world, the moment you “check in” on Facebook, on the social media platform has pinpointed your location. Not only that, but may have also provided for the information to strangers you did rather not know where you are or have been.

The Facebook social media site is also using this data for more than just helping you get in touch with your friends. They have decided to use the data collected from what you post and look for on Facebook and sell it to advertisers. This is an invasion for privacy.

Disable Location Tracking On the Facebook App

If, they have needed for disable location tracking from on Facebook completely, the steps provided here will help you do so. This will also disable the automatic “check-in” feature. So if you still want to “check-in” you will need to do so manually.

Disable location tracking on your iOS device:

1. Launch the Settings app on your iPhone or iPad.
2. Tap on Privacy.
3. Tap on Location Services.
4. Tap on Facebook.
5. Tap on Never.

Disable location tracking on your Android device:

1. Go to Settings on your Android device.
2. Tap on Apps.
3. Click on the Configuration button (should look like a little cogwheel).
4. Go to App Permissions and then to Location.
5. Locate the Facebook app and tap near it to turn off Location Services.
6. Relaunch the Facebook app for the changes to take place.

Once the location tracking feature has been turned off, Facebook will not have any access to it. This means Facebook will no longer be able to store that information on your whereabouts nor will any nearby friends be alerted to your presence within the vicinity. It’s also highly recommended that remove geotagging from your phone and photos. A geotag is the tag that marks your location on a piece of content, usually a photo. You will need to get into your camera’s settings in order to disable this feature.

Disable Location History without Disabling Location Tracking

They aren’t concerned for your information being shared on Facebook account that you have no real reason to turn it off completely. Maybe you still enjoy the “check-in” and Friends Nearby features and perfectly content with providing information in exchange for these services.

They have capability for keeping location tracking on while disabling your tracking history. This way Facebook cannot keep all of the information on file to which everything becomes known by the advertisers.

To disable location history on Facebook:

1. Open the Facebook app on your phone such as iPhone/iPad
2. Tap the “More” tab in the bottom right corner for the screen
3. Scroll down and tap Settings
4. Tap Account Settings
5. Tap Location
6. Designate the Location History switch to off

Delete Stored Location History Information

After disabling the location history feature on Facebook accounts, there will still be saved more data that has been collected from prior use. The history is now stored on Facebook to use as they see fit. That is until you choose to delete it.

To delete location history data that has been stored on Facebook:

1. Launch the Facebook app on your phone such as iPhone/iPad.
2. Tap the “More” tab in the bottom right corner for the screen.
3. Scroll down and tap Settings.
4. Tap Activity Log.
5. Next, tap Filter.
6. Then, tap Location History.
7. Another tap for Clear Location History.
8. Finalize, by tapping Confirm.

All of the location history that had been stored has now been removed on Facebook’s clutches. If you opted to keep Location Tracking enabled, you will want to renew this process every so often so that it does not build up over time.

Removing Location From A Facebook Post

Just need to remove the location from something that’s already been posted? Doing that is quite simple. All you have to do is:

1. Go to the post you want to remove the location from.
2. Click on the three dots menu and select Edit Post.
3. Choose the small, blue pin icon, which is the Location Tracking icon and tap on it.
4. Look for “At (Your Location).” Once you see it, click on the “x” button next to it.
5. After you have done this, click them and Save.

The location will be removed from the post. But what if you want to add a location? You can add a new location in place of the old one and just add a location to a post that never had one.

Similar to the removal process, adding the location is quite easy to do so. To add a location to a Facebook post:

1. Locate the post you want to add a location to.
2. Click on the three dots menu.
3. From the menu, choose the Edit Post option.
4. Click on the blue pin icon, better known as the Location Tracking icon.
5. Select the location you want to add into the post and finalize by clicking on Save.

If, you are worried about Facebook putting in dangers by knowing your whereabouts, it’s suggested that you only added location to the post once you have actually left that location. It pays to take extreme caution when it comes to your privacy. So be vigilant, take precautions, and plan ahead.

Manually Use the “Check-In” Feature

The “check-in” feature does not add the location to an already created post but instead creates for the whole new post with your location added automatically. Once location tracking has been disabled, Facebook will not have the data available to add into location to the post when use the “check-in” feature. They are needed to create the post yourself and manually attach the location to it.

Here’s what you will need to do:

1. Toward the top of your “News Feed” and profile page, click on the box marked “What’s on your mind?”
2. Use the location tracking icon, which is now pink instead of blue, to look up for the certain location.
3. From the drop-down menu provided, select the location that like to add.
   • You can also select look up the location in manually by typing it into the area provided.
   • At this point, you can tag friends, pick a date, add a photo and select who can view this post.
4. After adding whatever you wanted to add, finish the “check-in” procedure by clicking on Post.

To remove any trace for the “check-in” all you need to do is delete for the post.