How to Turn on Location History in Google Maps
To unlock the many possibilities of Location History in Google Maps, follow these simple steps: While privacy concerns related to enabling your Location History might be warranted in some cases, utilizing this feature can beneficial to you in many ways.
4 Useful Things to Do with Google Location History
Once you’ve enabled the Location History option, Google Maps will be able to track your every move and provide you with lists and timelines showcasing your past movements. Here’s some cool things you can do if you have the feature enabled.
1. Take a Trip Down Memory Lane
When you want to go back in time and see all of your past trips, Google Maps Location History can help. You can quickly scroll through your timeline and see all of the places you have been, sorted from most the most recent to older trips. To see this, follow these steps:
2. Do a Back-Trail of Your Recently Visited Places
By turning on your location history on Google Maps, you can also easily and accurately recall the most recent places you visited. Here’s what you should do:
3. Manage Your “Saved Places”
With the “Manage Your Personal Places” option in settings, you can see all of your saved places. This includes lists of places you love, you’d like to visit, or downloaded maps for offline use. Here’s how to check them: This is a fast and easy method of accessing Location timelines without having to remember another link.
4. Email Your Trip Highlights
Google Maps is an incredible tool for navigating the world and exploring new places. With Location History enabled, you can set up email updates so that your most recent trips are automatically documented in a fun way. To set up email updates:
Using Location History in Google Maps for Mobile
To do some of the things listed above on your mobile phone, it is important that you first turn on “Location History” in your Google Maps app.
Accessing Your Google Maps Location History in the App
If you don’t want to browse your location history on your desktop computer, it’s possible to do it on your mobile device.
1. How long will Google retain my location history?
Google made a major change to its privacy policy back in 2018 when it announced that users’ location history will automatically be deleted after 18 months. Web activity will default back in time as well. Additional options to delete every 3 or 36 months are also available.
2. Can I automatically delete or disable my location history?
On most devices, your location history is turned off by default. Technically, Google does not track your location automatically. The choice is yours whether to utilize this option or not. Once you decide to stop Google from recording your every move, you have to turn it off manually.
3. Can I recover deleted location history?
Unfortunately, you can no longer retrieve your location history once deleted. That’s why we highly recommend checking whether your “Auto Delete” function is on to prevent accidentally losing your data. On the other hand, you can use a data restoration tool to recover it.
