How to turn off check-ins? I have an Android 4.1 phablet. I'd like to turn off the check-in feature. The only way I've found so far is to disable the whole Google Now, but I don't want to do that.

I want to turn-off only check-ins feature.

I want to do this because it's extremely annoying, even when I stay in my apartment for hours and don't move my phone. It proposes to check-in to thousands of places around every few minutes. (I live in city center)
I think you need to adjust the settings in the Google Maps application that control this. Launch Maps and press the overflow menu icon (the three dots in the bottom right on Vanilla Android; you may need to access your settings slightly differently on other devices with custom UI skins), then go to Settings =&gt; Location settings and scroll down. You should see a subsection labeled "Check-ins":



If you also want the cards for nearby places to be hidden then you can do that in Google Now's settings. Select Settings =&gt; Google Now =&gt; Places and turn those cards off.