Google Play sandbox Location

shbsssn

Hi,

With reference to:

"The vast majority of Play services functionality works perfectly including dynamically downloaded/updated modules (dynamite modules) and functionality provided by modular app components such as Google Play Games. By default, location requests are rerouted to a reimplementation of the Play geolocation service provided by GrapheneOS."
Source: https://grapheneos.org/features#sandboxed-google-play

How does one disable Location, or spoof this?

I do not want any Location data sent.

Regards.

treequell

You can stop Google Play Services having your location by disabling the network permission for it. That permission is disabled by default and only enabled if you enable it yourself.

Google Play Services is sandboxed like any other user installed app on GrapheneOS, so you can handle its permissions like any other app.

By default, location requests are not sent via Google Play Services. Instructions to enable that functionality are given here: https://grapheneos.org/usage#sandboxed-google-play-configuration

If you ever set that up, you can simply reverse those steps to switch back to the standard OS location service.

shbsssn

Thanks for this explanation

Is there a way to spoof the Location?