How to stop your Android from accessing your location

Ever wonder how much location information your Android reports? Well, just take a look at how much Google knows about where you’ve been.

It’s at once impressive and a little eerie. That’s just Google, and they’re relatively transparent about how they use your information. What about all those other apps that you’ve granted access to your location by glancing right over the Permissions when you installed them? Here we’ll talk how to limit third-party apps’ ability to access your location, and also how to stop your phone from sending location information at all, even to Google.

Limit Individual App Location Access

You can see a list of apps that currently have access to your location information by going to Settings > Location and scrolling down. Unfortunately, you can’t revoke these permissions on an individual basis unless an app has that option within its own settings.
There is, however, a workaround.
Download AppOps from the Google Play Store.

Boot up AppOps once its installed. Choose the app for which you want to restrict location access, and toggle the Location switch to Off. That’s all there is to it!

Totally Stop Location Tracking

Go to Settings > Location. At the very top of the screen, toggle Location to Off.

i think the user should be aware that doing this could disable androids built in phone location services should you lose your phone and try to recover it online