in maps there is a huge blue circle around my "current location" and I would like to get rid of it, and I did not do a "pin drop" either?

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At the top left corner of the Maps app you should see this button in blue:

Just press it to turn the button grey (like in that screenshot), so the blue circle around your location will disappear.

Hi

How do you get rid of the blue circle from Yosemite versions please? The arrow is as you say but it is grey in colour. Is it something to do with the fact that it is obscuring an image which is at least 10 years out of date, I wonder?

The way to remove the blue circle is to open Security and Privacy in System Preferences. Location Services: click unlock at bottom of window and then deselect Maps. The blue circle goes away.

Well...im sorry to say....but apple ***** donkey testicles!! Yes they are more secure in many ways...but its like they make everything difficult so if you take the enormous amount of time to figure everything out you never want to change...smart strategy in one sense. I ructantly went to an android platform and am MUCH HAPPIER! good luck with your complaint to Apple it's like sending the complaint to Microsoft...donkey balls...lol! pretty soon our phones will be running the company and we won't have to worry about voting since we have such good choices to choose from..

Hi

Many thanks for your prompt reply, very much appreciated. Unfortunately though, as with many details from Apple, things aren't that straightforward. I followed your instructions and indeed was able to remove the blue circle. Job done I thought, but It also removed the whole of the location feature and the solid dot so I was unable to press the arrow button to get me back to my home address. So until Apple change the feature just to remove the blue circle I guess I'll have to stick with the blue circle. I have often wondered what it does. My only answer is that it is a built in error identifier in that your home address should be somewhere within the circle.

Thanks again

Regards

Rob

Thank you, Mario. I don't think I EVER would have figured that out.

So until Apple change the feature just to remove the blue circle I guess I'll have to stick with the blue circle. I have often wondered what it does. My only answer is that it is a built in error identifier in that your home address should be somewhere within the circle.

You guessed correctly. Just a standard uncertainty volume.

Not being able to remove the location "blue circle" is a BIG shortcoming and the reason I do use Apple map. There should be a simple way of being able to not have the giant blue circle or the blue dot displayed on your map; like making the location arrow a toggle button - click on, click off. Being forced to go into settings and turning off location services to all apps and programs is NOT the way a user should have to deal with this issue.

Not sure why you chose my post to reply to as I can't fix it, nor did I express an opinion on its efficacy.

However, if you want it fixed, you should complain to Apple instead of me.

"Not sure why you chose my post to reply to..."

Because your post was the last in the thread and it was easier instead of replying to the original post or one of the ones thereafter that dealt with an old OS, not the current OS.

"...as I can't fix it,..."

If you were in the position to fix it you probable would be working for Apple and not posting in these threads and I did not think or expect that you would be able to fix it nor did I ask you to fix it.

"...nor did I express an opinion on its efficacy."

Neither did I.

"However, if you want it fixed, you should complain to Apple instead of me."

I assumed, perhaps incorrectly, that someone within Apple would at least be reading THEIR "Apple Support Communities" forums that are hosted on THEIR web site.

Now, take a couple of chill pills, listen to some relaxing music, and remember, If you have nothing nice to say to some you might consider saying nothing at all. :-)

Now, take a couple of chill pills, listen to some relaxing music, and remember, If you have nothing nice to say to some you might consider saying nothing at all. :-)

You should take some, then post your complaint to the Apple Feedback site where they might read it. http://www.apple.com/feedback

Thanks for the help, you have been a scholar and a gentleman and I see how you have obtained Level 8 and 38,000+ points. Your insight is most illuminating.

For the record, this is broken or doesn't work in Yosemite. Given that Yosemite is close to being replaced already by the new OS, this is just abominable. To have such a giant BUG survive across an entire year of updates is pathetic.

The only answers I have found to this is that you can "turn off location" which is a ridiculous thing to suggest in a mapping application, or turn off Wi-Fi, which isn't even possible on most modern computers because they don't have any other method of accessing the network.

Why is Apple Maps even included on my computer if it's not even useable?

Hi there,

FWIW, This site is part of apple.com and they do indeed monitor this site for feedback and complaints. I doubt whether any company, as crap as they are, would allow a 'subdomain' of theirs to be used willy-nilly and not monitor it!

Maz