How to Turn On or off Website Accessing Your Location in Microsoft Edge on Windows 11

How to Find Edge’s Location Settings

Edge keeps its location controls in the site permissions area of Settings. In current versions of Edge they are also reachable through Cookies and site permissions. If the menu names below look slightly different on your build, look for that entry. The steps below follow the Privacy, search, and services path.

1. Open Microsoft Edge. The browser window appears with your usual start page.
2. Click the three dots ... in the top-right corner. A menu opens.
3. Select Settings from the menu. As a shortcut, type edge://settings/privacy edge://settings/ in the address bar and press Enter. Either way, Settings opens in a new tab.
4. Click Privacy, search, and services on the left side of the Settings⚙️ tab. The right side now shows the privacy options.
5. Scroll down on the right side until you see Site permissions. This is the group of settings that decide what websites may use, such as your camera, microphone and location.
6. Click Location in the list. The page that opens holds all the location settings, including the toggle and the lists of allowed and blocked sites.

That’s it. You are now on the Edge Location page, ready to change how websites can ask for your position.

Setting Your Main Location Access

Turning off location access stops websites from asking for your physical coordinates. You do this with the Ask before accessing toggle on the Location page. Once it is off, Edge blocks all new location requests and stops sharing your geographical position with any page you visit.

To turn on or off website accessing your location in Microsoft Edge, follow these steps from start to finish:

1. Open Microsoft Edge. The browser window appears.
2. Click the three dots in the top-right corner. A menu opens.
3. Select Settings. Settings opens in a new tab.
4. Click Privacy, search, and services on the left. The privacy options appear on the right.
5. Scroll down to Site permissions. If it is missing, use Cookies and site permissions on the left instead.
6. Click Location. The Location page opens with the toggle and the site lists.
7. Find the Ask before accessing switch near the top of the page. It is the main control for this setting.
8. Click the switch to turn it off or on. The switch changes colour right away, and Edge saves the change without a confirmation button.
9. Reload any page that was already open. Edge applies the new setting to pages when they load.

That’s it. Edge now follows the position you chose for the Ask before accessing switch, and no restart is needed.

Here is what each position does:

• If you turn OFF “Ask before accessing”: Edge stops all websites from getting your exact location. You won’t get any more requests. This is the strictest setting.
• If you turn ON “Ask before accessing” (Recommended): This is the default and usually the best choice. When a website wants your location, Edge shows a message asking whether to Allow or Block it for that site. You can change your answer later.

To undo the change, return to the same page and click the switch again. Sites you already allowed or blocked individually stay in their lists, so check those lists if a site behaves differently than you expect.

Blocking requests in the browser does not hide everything. Websites can still estimate your location from your IP address, which is a number assigned to your network connection. That estimate is much less precise than GPS or Wi-Fi positioning. It usually points to your city or region rather than your street. Only a VPN or a similar service changes what the IP address reveals, and Edge’s location setting doesn’t affect it.

Edge also depends on the Windows location service for precise positioning. Windows has its own switches for this, and they sit on top of Edge’s settings. If Windows location is off, sites get little or no precise data even when Edge allows them.

1. Open Settings⚙️. Press the Win and I together to get there quickly.
2. Go to Settings › Privacy & security › Location. The Windows location controls appear.
3. Turn on Location services. This is the master switch for the whole PC, and apps cannot use location while it is off.
4. Find Microsoft Edge in the list of apps on the same page. Windows lists each app that has asked for your location.
5. Set the Microsoft Edge switch to allow or deny it. Denying it here blocks Edge no matter what the Edge Location page says.

That’s it. Windows now allows or denies Microsoft Edge from using your location, and the change applies without a restart. If Microsoft Edge is not in the list, open a site that asks for your location once and check again.

Managing Location for Specific Websites

Instead of one blanket rule, you can set permissions for individual sites. This suits weather apps, maps or game portals that need your location, while everything else stays blocked.

1. Open the Location settings page. Use the steps earlier in this guide if you are not there yet.
2. Leave Ask before accessing on. Edge then still prompts you for new sites.
3. Click Allow or Block when a site asks for your location. Choose Allow for sites you trust and Block for the rest. Edge remembers your choice for that site.
4. Return to the Location page to review your choices later. Look at the Block and Allow lists there.
5. Remove a site from a list to make Edge ask about it again. The site then gets the normal prompt on its next visit.

That’s it. Each site you answered now has its own rule, so trusted sites can use your location while the rest stay blocked.

Per-site rules only apply while the site is in a list. If you later switch Ask before accessing off, check your allow list so you know which trusted sites still behave the way you expect.

Method A: While on the Website

1. Go to the website in Microsoft Edge.
2. Look to the left of the address bar. You will see an icon. It might look like a padlock, an ‘i’ in a circle, or a warning sign.
3. Click that icon. A small menu will appear.
4. Look for Permissions for this site. Click it.
5. Find Location in the list of permissions.
6. Next to Location, use the dropdown menu. Choose Ask (the default), Allow, or Block.

Method B: From the Main Site Permissions List

1. Follow Step 1 to get to the site permissions list (edge://settings/content/all).
2. Find and click on Location.
3. You will see a list of websites that have asked for your location or have permissions set. Click the ‘X’ next to a site to remove its permission. You might also be able to change permissions directly from this list.

Managing website location permissions from the main site list lets you review every page that has ever asked for your location. You can view all saved choices in one place and remove unwanted sites by clicking the trash or X icon next to them. This helps you clean up old permissions and keeps your private data secure.

Reference:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/edge/location-and-privacy-in-microsoft-edge

Summary

Microsoft Edge manages website location prompt permissions completely. Disabling all requests or permitting specific sites preserves privacy while supporting services requiring geographical data.