This feature could be useful if you want to remember a restaurant or store you visited a few weeks ago.\u00a0Apple promises<\/a>\u00a0(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 Maps to maintain a history of where you’ve been, you don’t need to. <\/p>\n After you update to iOS 26, Maps will prompt you to enable this feature. You can decline, but if you accept and change your mind later, here’s how to disable Visited Places in your Maps app.\u00a0 <\/p>\n Don’t miss any of our unbiased tech content and lab-based reviews. Add CNET<\/a> as a preferred Google source.<\/p>\n Disable Visited Places in Maps <\/p>\n 1.<\/strong> Open Settings<\/strong>. Now your Maps app won’t detect and log locations you visit.\u00a0 <\/p>\n When I arrived at this menu for the first time, I couldn’t tap the toggle to disable Visited Places<\/strong>. However, when I disabled and re-enabled the toggle for Precise Location<\/strong> in the same menu, I could then tap the Visited Places <\/strong>toggle to disable it. <\/p>\n There’s also a toggle in this menu for Preferred Routes & Predicted Destinations<\/strong>. According to Apple<\/a>, if this feature is enabled it can learn your driving patterns and destinations, and then it can let you know if there’s a delay on your route and offer detours. If you don’t want this feature to learn your driving patterns, tap the toggle to turn it off. <\/p>\n Delete previous Visited Places <\/p>\n If you don’t mind the Visited Places feature, but want to delete individual entries, go into Maps > Places > Visited Places.<\/strong> You can then swipe left on individual locations and tap the trash can icon to delete them one by one. If you want to trash the whole list, tap Clear History<\/strong> near the bottom of the menu.\u00a0 <\/p>\n For more on iOS 26, here’s my review of the OS<\/a>, how to reduce the Liquid Glass<\/a> effects in the update and how to enable call screening<\/a> on your iPhone. You can also check out our iOS 26 cheat sheet<\/a>. For a longer read, you might want to check out this deep dive into how your iPhone isn’t listening to you, but the truth is even worse<\/a>. <\/p>\n Watch this:<\/strong> What Makes Apple’s New 40-Watt Charger Plug Special\n <\/p>\n 07:21 <\/p>\n Correction, Sept. 30:<\/strong> An earlier version of this story misstated that Visited Places is on by default. You have to enable this feature on your device.\u00a0 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"iOS 26 landed in September with a long list of headlining features — Liquid Glass, call screening, Apple…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":958604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3159],"tags":[547,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-958603","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-mobile","9":"tag-technology","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116571266462151838","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=958603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/958604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=958603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=958603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=958603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
2.<\/strong> Tap Apps.
3. <\/strong>Tap Maps.
4. <\/strong>Tap Location.
5. <\/strong>Tap the toggle next to Visited Places.<\/strong><\/p>\n Apple\/Screenshot by CNET<\/p>\n
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