Turning approximate location sharing on or off Guide

Your AI Assistant can use your approximate location to give more relevant answers — think local time-of-day context, nearby options, or regional details — without you having to type where you are. You stay in control of whether this is shared, and it's easy to turn on or off at any time.

What approximate location sharing does

When location sharing is on, your assistant has a general sense of where you are for the conversation you're in. This helps it answer questions that depend on where you are without you spelling it out each time.

The location is approximate — it reflects a general area rather than a precise address or pinpoint. It's meant to add helpful context, not to track you.

If you'd rather always state your location yourself, you can leave sharing off and simply mention where you are in your message whenever it matters. The assistant will use whatever you tell it directly.

How accurate it is

Approximate location gives a broad picture — typically the general area you're connecting from — not a street address or exact coordinates. It's designed to be useful for context while staying deliberately imprecise.

Because it's approximate, it can sometimes differ from where you actually are — for example, if you're using a VPN, traveling, or connecting through a network that routes elsewhere. When precision matters, the most reliable approach is to tell the assistant your location in your message.

Tip: If the assistant seems to have the wrong area, just include your city or region in your request. What you type directly always takes priority.

Turning it on or off

Location sharing is a setting you control, and you can change it whenever you like.

1. Open your Settings from the account menu.
2. Find the location or privacy controls.
3. Toggle approximate location sharing on to let the assistant use your general area, or off to keep it out of your conversations.

Your choice takes effect for new messages. You can revisit this setting at any time to change your mind.

On the web versus phone channels

Approximate location applies to how you're connecting during a conversation. If you continue a chat from a connected phone channel, the surrounding context can differ from your web session — another reason to state your location directly when it's important to get right.

Privacy of your location data

Your location context is used to make your own conversations more helpful — it isn't sold, and it isn't shared with other people or with the businesses in your connected apps.

Actions that reach the outside world — sending a message, placing a call, or anything similar — always show you an Approve card first. So even when the assistant has location context, nothing involving your location leaves your control without your confirmation.

If you prefer to share nothing at all, simply keep the setting off. The assistant works fully without it; you'll just add your location to a request on the rare occasions it's needed.

Choosing what's right for you

• Leave it on if you want quicker, more contextual answers and don't want to restate where you are.
• Turn it off if you'd rather share nothing by default and provide location only when a specific task calls for it.

Either way, you can change the setting at any time, and you can always override the assistant's assumptions by telling it exactly where you are in your message.