Apple released iOS 26 on Sept. 15, and the update brought Liquid Glass, call and text screening, and more hidden features to your iPhone. It also gave your Maps app a new feature called Visited Places that can track where you go, but you can turn the feature off in Settings.
The feature was on by default after I updated my device to iOS 26, and it was detecting and logging places I visit, like restaurants, shops and parks. It could be useful if you want to remember a restaurant you went to a few weeks ago, but you might also worry the information could be used in some nefarious way.
Apple wrote online that the company can't access these locations, and you can delete them from the app if you want. But if you don't want Maps to have this information in the first place despite what Apple says, here's how to disable Visited Places in your Maps app.
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Stop Maps from logging your visited places
1. Open Settings.
2. Tap Apps.
3. Tap Maps.
4. Tap Location.
5. Tap the toggle next to Visited Places.
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