IOS 26: How to disable the “visited places” feature for your iPhone

Apple was released iOS 26 On September 15, and brought up the update Liquid glassand Call and text Examination More hidden features for you iphone. It also gave your maps application some new features, including one called Places visited You can follow the place you go if you enable it.

This feature may be useful if you want to remember a restaurant or store you visited a few weeks ago. Apple (PDF) that these sites cannot be accessed, and you can delete them from the application if you want. But if you do not want the maps to keep the history of where you were, you do not need it.

After updating to iOS 26, the maps will ask you to enable this feature. You can decrease, but if you accept and change your opinion later, here is how to disable the places visited in your Maps app.

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Disable the places that were visited in the maps

1. Open Settings.
2. handle Applications.
3. handle maps.
4. handle location.
5. Click the switch next to Places visited.

Now you will not discover your maps application and record the sites you visit.

When I reached this list for the first time, I couldn’t click on the switch to disable Places visited. However, when I disabled and re -customized the switch to Microfinance site In the same list, I can then click Places visited Switch to disable it.

There is also a switch on this list Favorite methods and expected destinations. according to appleIf this feature is enabled, it can learn your driving patterns and destinations, and then it can tell you if there is a delay on your way and submit transfers. If you don’t want to learn this feature of your driving patterns, click TogGle to stop them.

Delete the previously visited places

If you don’t mind the feature of the places that have been visited, but you wish Maps> Places> Places visited. You can then pass the left on individual sites and click the trash icon to delete them one after another. If you want to activate the entire list, click A clear date Near the bottom of the list.

To learn more about iOS 26, here My evaluation of the operating systemHow to reduce Liquid glass Impacts on update and how to enable Call check -in On your iPhone. You can also see our Cheating paper 26 iOS. For a longer reading, you may want to check this deep diving on how Your iPhone does not listen to you, but the truth is worse.

Correction, September 30: A previous version of this story, I made a mistake in visiting places by default. You should enable this feature on your device.