Can I turn off location services for my MacBook Pro? It is possible to disable Location Services in Mac OS X. First, go to your System Preferences and selec.
Your approximate location is determined using information from local Wi-Fi networks, and is collected by Location Services in a manner that doesn’t personally identify you.
If you allow third-party applications or websites to use your current location, you are subject to their terms and privacy policy and practices. You should review the application’s or website’s terms, privacy policy and practices to understand how they use your location and other information. Information collected by Apple is treated in accordance with Apple’s Privacy Policy, which can be found at www.apple.com/privacy.
For information about Location Services on an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch, see this article.
Location Services in OS X
Enabling Location Services
Follow these steps to enable location services in OS X Mountain Lion or later
- Choose System Preferences from the Apple () menu.
- Click the Security & Privacy icon in the System Preferences window.
- Click the Privacy tab.
- If the padlock icon in the lower left is locked (), click it and enter an admin name and password to unlock it ().
- Select Location Services.
- Check the 'Enable Location Services' checkbox.
Apps that you have allowed to use Location Services appear in the Privacy pane of Security & Privacy preferences. Checkboxes show whether Location Services is turned on or off for an app. If you don’t want to allow Location Services for one or more apps, you can deselect (uncheck) the checkbox next to an app's name. If you turn Location Services off for an app, you are prompted for permission the next time that app requests to use your location data.
Location Services indicator
If an app is currently using Location Services, an arrow indicator () appears in the menu bar. Click it to see which apps are using Location Services. If an app has requested your location within the last 24 hours, an arrow indicator () appears to the right of the app name in System Preferences.
Date & Time preferences
Location Services can be used for setting your time zone automatically in Date & Time preferences.
The 'Set time zone automatically using current location' checkbox appears on Macs that have Wi-Fi capability. If your Mac doesn't offer this feature, manually choose the closest city.
Location Services in Safari 6 or later
When you visit a geolocation-enabled website in Safari, you are asked if you want to share your location with the site. Websites can provide helpful location-based information, such as showing you the nearest post office or bank ATM. In the sheet that appears, select the option 'Remember my decision for one day' if you want to allow or disable authorization for the next 24 hours.
You can reset all website authorizations in Safari by choosing Reset Safari from the Safari menu. Select the 'Reset all location warnings' option in the Reset Safari window. (Don't select the other checkboxes unless you are sure you want to reset those items as well.)
Follow these steps to disable Location Services features in Safari:
- In Safari select Safari > Preferences.
- Click the Privacy icon in the Preferences window.
- Select the 'Deny without prompting' option.
With each successive release, the Chrome Notification Center improves. In fact, I dare not imagine how my productivity might suffer without it!
From Gmail alerts to Google Now cards, the Chrome notifications helps me to stay on top of things.
And yet, on the flip side, I am not everyone.
Many Chrome users find theextra notification features an annoyance, and inserting unwanted clutter in an otherwise ordered system tray.
But Should You Turn It Off?
Designed to be a one-stop drop-down shade for housing app alerts, e-mail notifications and (for now) cards from Google Now, the Chrome Notification Centre is a useful tool if you’re heavily invested in the Google ecosystem or reliant on alerts from certain apps and websites you have installed.
But if you aren’t you may be asking how to disable Chrome notifications entirely
The short answer is you can’t, at least not outright. You can, however turn off notifications toasts (the rectangular alerts that appear on screen) for most sites and apps and ‘hide’ the bell icon (the notification center that store these toasts) from view.
How to Disable Chrome Notifications
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Before we hide the notification center itself we need to use it to turn off notifications for Chrome apps, websites and services.
Be sure that you want to do this before continuing.
To turn off Chrome notifications:
- Open the notification center by clicking the bell icon
- Click the ‘cog wheel’ (Settings) icon
- Uncheck/deselect apps/websites as required
For many of you this step along may be the perfect solution. You can pick and choose which notifications you get.
You may still receive some Chrome notifications going forward, i.e. after installing a new app, but it should help you filter the noise.
How To Hide Chrome Notification Icon
Having disabled notification toasts you may also want to hide the notification center icon used to stores them.
On Mac OS X this takes no more than a couple of clicks:
- Click the ‘Chrome’ menu in the Menu Bar
- Select the ‘Hide Notifications Icon’ entry
For Windows7 and 8 users, hiding the bell icon from system tray is a little less obvious:
- Click the overflow arrow in the lower-right System Tray
- Click on the ‘Customise’ link
- Find and change the Google Chrome icon behavior to “Hide icon and notifications”
Alternatively, if you want to see notification toasts as they arrive but don’t want the notification center they get stored in, select the “Show Notifications but Hide Icon” behavior.
How to Re-Enable Chrome Notifications
To re-enable notification center and app/websites alerts you need to repeat the steps above in reverse order. First set the bell icon to show, then use the settings menu inside to toggle on notifications you previously de-selected.