This one’s a tad off the beaten Android path but is something you should know about. You might well have heard that Google, in an effort to speed up a number of things involving location, has built a database of Wifi access points. The idea, of course, is that if your phone is in range of one or more APs, it’ll have a pretty good idea of where you are, thus speeding location services.
The flip side is that it’s not just public access points that have been cataloged. Your home Wifi might well be recognized, too (and Google’s gotten in a little bit of hot water for accidentally collecting more data than it should have).
But you can now opt out of having your Wifi included in Google’s database. To do so is simple enough.
Step 1
Go to your router settings and select SSID.
Go to your router settings and select SSID.
Step 2
Edit it so that you add ‘_nomap’ to the end of it as shown in the picture above.
Edit it so that you add ‘_nomap’ to the end of it as shown in the picture above.
