Control access to the location of your Mac
When you turn on Location Services, you allow apps and websites to gather and use information based on the current location of your Mac. Your Mac determines its location using information from local Wi-Fi networks. Location Services collects the information in a manner that doesnβt personally identify you.
Turn off Location Services
On your Mac, choose Apple menu
in the sidebar, then click Location Services. (You may need to scroll down.)Turn off Location Services.
If you turn off Location Services on your Mac, your precise location is not sent to Apple. To deliver relevant search suggestions, Apple may use the IP address of your internet connection to approximate your location by matching it to a geographic region.
Even if you turn off Location Services, third-party applications and websites may still use other ways to determine your location. For safety purposes, however, your Macβs location information may be used for emergency calls to aid response efforts regardless of whether Location Services is turned on.
Specify which apps and system services can use Location Services
On your Mac, choose Apple menu
Turn Location Services on or off for each app in the list.
If you turn off Location Services for an app, youβre asked to turn it on again the next time that app tries to use your location data.
Scroll to the bottom of the list of apps to reveal System Services, then click the Details button to see specific system services that use your location.
To allow the location of your Mac to be used by Siri Suggestions and Safari Suggestions, turn on Suggestions & Search.
To allow your Mac to identify places significant to you and provide useful related information in Maps, Calendar, Reminders and more, turn on βSignificant locationsβ. Significant locations are encrypted and canβt be read by Apple. Click Details to view a list of locations that have been identified. You can select and remove locations from the list or click
> Clear History to remove all the locations.
In macOS Ventura 13.3 or later, an arrow 
next to the Control Centre icon 
in the menu bar indicates that the current location of your Mac is being used. To see the app thatβs using your location, click . See Use Control Centre.
If you allow third-party apps or websites to use your current location, any information they collect is governed by their terms and privacy policies. Itβs recommended that you learn about the privacy practices of those parties.
When you use Siri Suggestions or Safari Suggestions, the location of your Mac at the time you submit a search query to Safari or Spotlight is sent to Apple to make suggestions more relevant and to improve other Apple products and services.