Timeline is an optional feature in Google Maps that uses location tracking to show you the recent routes and places you visited. Photo: Kyle Barr / Gizmodo If you’re mainly plotting routes through ...

Google Maps is getting three new privacy-focused features. Users will soon be able to delete their activity related to specific places in Maps. Google will also start storing Timelines locally on ...

Google has confirmed the recent loss of Timeline data from the Maps app due to technical issues. Thankfully, users will be able to get the data back, provided they have backed it up beforehand.

Google Maps offers a timeline view on an opt-in basis that makes it easy for you to go back into the past, checking out the places you’ve been to. It looks like a timeline like this might soon make it ...

Not everybody was pleased to see Timeline on the web going away, but Google Maps users can continue to access their data on their mobile devices. Timeline information now syncs across devices, and ...

Google Maps has been able to keep track of where you go for some time. Called Location History, this feature would show you a map of where you’ve been using your location data. According to a new ...

Some users just had their timeline data wiped from Google Maps. The company told Mashable in a statement that it "briefly experienced a technical issue that caused the deletion of Timeline data for ...

We may earn a commission when you click links to retailers and purchase goods. More info. Google Maps is getting more timeline control, from on-device saves (and encrypted cloud saves), to the ability ...

A few months ago, I opened Google Maps and went to check my Timeline only to get the dreaded notification that my Timeline was going away — at least in its original server-hosted form. Instead, Google ...

Google Maps has long been a gold standard in everyday navigation, whether it is hopping on public transportation or jumping in your car for a journey across town. In addition to giving you insight ...

Perhaps this was an act of political defiance on the part of one or more developers on the Maps team. Anyone with half a brain who can tell which way the wind is blowing with the current ...