GoKawiiliOS 26 landed in September with a long list of headlining features -- Liquid Glass, call screening, Apple Intelligence updates -- but tucked away into the Maps app is a tool that deserves a closer look before you tap through the setup prompts. Visited Places is a new feature that logs the restaurants, shops, parks and landmarks you physically visit, organizing them into a searchable history you can browse by date, category or city. Apple says the data is end-to-end encrypted and inaccessible to the company, but if you'd rather your iPhone not keep a running log of your movements, here's how to disable it.
This feature could be useful if you want to remember a restaurant or store you visited a few weeks ago. Apple promises (PDF) that it can't access these locations, and you can delete them from the app if you want. But if you don't want Maps to maintain a history of where you've been, you don't need to.
After you update to iOS 26, Maps will prompt you to enable this feature. You can decline, but if you accept and change your mind later, here's how to disable Visited Places in your Maps app.
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Disable Visited Places in Maps
1. Open Settings.
2. Tap Apps.
3. Tap Maps.
4. Tap Location.
5. Tap the toggle next to Visited Places.
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