HP Veer 4G (AT&T) manual Location Services, Manage location information passed to websites

Clear History: Tap to delete your browsing history.

Clear Cookies: Tap to delete cookies used by some websites to remember visiting history and user settings.

Clear Cache: Tap to delete any web page content that has been stored in the local cache. This ensures that you are viewing the most current content when you visit a web page.

Location Services

The Location Services application allows you to control the sending of information about your location to websites and applications that request it.

Manage location information passed to websites

A website might request your current location so it can provide you with information that is relevant to where you are. For example, a weather site might require your location so it can let you know the weather forecast for your area.

1Open Location Services .

2If required, tap Turn On GPS.

3You can set Location Services to always ask your permission to send your location to a website when the site requests this information, or you can set it to never share your location with any website. The current setting is displayed in the For Websites field. To change the setting, tap the current setting and then select the other option from the displayed list.

4To clear all location data currently in use by websites, tap Clear My Location Data, and then tap Clear.

Manage location information passed to applications

An application might request your current location so it can provide you with information that is relevant to where you are. For example, Google Maps might use your current location to provide driving directions to a destination.

1Open Location Services .

2If required, tap Turn On GPS.

3Select one of the following in the For Applications field:

Auto Locate: Applications can automatically identify your location.

Always Ask: Applications display a request to identify your location. You choose whether to allow this for the current session only.

4Select On or Off for any of the following:

Geotag Photos: Available only when Auto Locate is selected. When Geotag Photos is on, photos are tagged with the latitude and longitude of the location in which they were taken.

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