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Huawei: Manage the Location Prompt in the Browser App

If websites on your Huawei phone keep asking for your location every time you open them, or never ask at all, the browser's own permission setting is behind that behavior. This option sits inside the browser's site settings and works separately from the phone's general location toggle. Turning it off stops every website from requesting your position, while turning it on lets sites ask individually.

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Enable or Disable 'Ask for Location' in Browser auf Huawei

The Browser app on Huawei phones controls location requests separately from the phone's system-wide location settings. This permission decides whether websites are allowed to ask for your position at all, not whether one specific site can access it right now.

When the setting is turned on, any website can show its own location request the first time it needs your position, for example a maps service or a store locator. When it's turned off, no website receives an automatic prompt, and location-based features on those sites either stay disabled or fall back to a manual location entry.

To change this behavior, open BrowserOpen the menuSettingsSite settingsLocation, then switch the toggle to enable or disable location requests.

This setting only affects the built-in Browser app. Other browsers installed on the device manage their own location permissions independently, and app-level location access is handled elsewhere in the phone's general settings.

Frequently asked questions

No. This toggle only manages the Browser app's own location prompt. System-wide location access for other apps is controlled separately in the phone's general settings, not through Site settingsLocation.