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Tracfone Question

PickyPicky3 — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 23:30:19 GMT

For about a month my Nokia G300 (Android version 11) has been showing me the temperature at the town where I am calling or texting someone.

Talk about non-essential information.

I can't figure out how to turn this off.

Help??

Re: Tracfone Question

seehorse — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 00:03:04 GMT

Could it be an app that you can remove?

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PickyPicky3 — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 00:09:24 GMT

@seehorse I disabled the app "1Weather." That wasn't it.

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seehorse — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 00:18:03 GMT

Sorry I couldn't help. Some of this phone / computer stuff is so invasive and annoying.

Maybe someone else has the answer.

Good Luck!

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PickyPicky3 — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 00:23:09 GMT

@seehorse Exactly. Invasive and annoying. It means something else is tracking my calls and texts.

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Caffeina — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 01:01:06 GMT

@PickyPicky3 wrote:
For about a month my Nokia G300 (Android version 11) has been showing me the temperature at the town where I am calling or texting someone.

Talk about non-essential information.

I can't figure out how to turn this off.

Help??

@PickyPicky3

From what I could dig up, it's a new feature that's built into Google Contacts, and is gradually being rolled out to Android users. It gets the weather from weather dot com, if you have an address for a contact in the address field. Sounds like it can't be disabled, but there is a workaround. Remove the contact's address from the address field, and put it into the notes field.

You can do a web search for google contacts weather update to find some articles and discussions.

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SaveTheTurtles — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 01:16:56 GMT

Sounds kinda annoying. I am not familiar with androids at all.

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jackthebear — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 11:34:34 GMT

@PickyPicky3 wrote:
For about a month my Nokia G300 (Android version 11) has been showing me the temperature at the town where I am calling or texting someone.

Talk about non-essential information.

I can't figure out how to turn this off.

Help??

go to youtube and "android settings to turn off" there are many I did the same for my iPhone

Re: Tracfone Question

PickyPicky3 — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 13:34:40 GMT

@Caffeina's solution is correct. For me this means manually moving all those addresses. Yuck.

Also, I put in people's street address AND the name of their apartment or condo. Unless the location field is completely empty, the temperature still shows.