Location services is the device level control. You can pick which devices pump locations out and turn it off entirely for a device if desired. Google only track

Location services is the device level control. You can pick which devices pump locations out and turn it off entirely for a device if desired. Google only tracks location from a device if you give them the OK (most do for maps / weather etc). Then they use that location to communicate with their servers and serve you the data you want that is location based. This location (and they enrich it with wifi stuff etc) is available to all apps on your device that have permission to use it plus all server they connect with that use it. Separately for google apps themselves you can go here: https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/54068 https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/54068 Because they will track location at app level across both play and ios etc. So even if you are on a device WITHOUT location service, google may still be getting your location data through an app on the device.