Since the iOS 9 update, iPhones and iPads now knows where you are going around in your car and it will notify you traffic news on your travel, if you let do that.

These alerts draw on iOS 9's Frequent Locations feature, which the Maps app uses to provide what Apple calls predictive traffic routing. Your iPhone keeps track of places you've visited recently and often, then guesses where you're headed next and provides a corresponding traffic update.

Whether or not you find this a cool feature depends on how much driving you do - and how often iOS 9 guesses wrong about where you're headed. (That gets annoying pretty quick.) If you decide you don't want your iPhone stalking you, here's how to disable the virtually impossible-to-find setting that controls it:

• Step 1: Tap the Settings icon.
• Step 2: Tap Privacy > Location Services.
• Step 3: Scroll all the way to the bottom and tap System Services.

• Step 4: Tap Frequent Locations, then toggle the setting to off.

You could also disable Location-Based Alerts, but it's not necessary, and it would prevent certain other useful features, like your iPhone reminding you to do something when you get to a particular place.

What do you think of predictive traffic routing? Incredibly handy, incredibly annoying, or somewhere in between?

How to clear Frequent Locations history on iPhone

If you keep the feature enabled, you have the option to clear the history of frequent locations if you want by following these steps.

• Step 1: In System Services, enter in Frequent Locations.
• Step 2: Scroll down to the History section.
• Step 3: Tap on Clear History.

Keep in mind that Apple uses the Frequent Locations feature to personalize your experience in the Today view on Notification Center, such as calculating the distance from your home to office. By disabling this feature, or clearing your location history, you will be affecting this functionality on your iPhone.