Individuals flip to Google Maps to make their lives simpler — from seeing how crowded a bus might be or when a restaurant is busy to remembering a seaside they visited years in the past on trip. These useful options are doable due to location knowledge. And with Google, managing location knowledge is easy because of instruments like auto-delete and Incognito mode. At the moment, we’re introducing new updates to offer you much more management over this vital, private data.
Coming quickly: Your Timeline saved in your machine
The Timeline characteristic in Maps helps you keep in mind locations you’ve been and is powered by a setting known as Location Historical past. If you happen to’re among the many subset of customers who’ve chosen to show Location Historical past on (it’s off by default), quickly your Timeline might be saved proper in your machine — supplying you with much more management over your knowledge. Similar to earlier than, you possibly can delete all or a part of your data at any time or disable the setting solely.
If you happen to’re getting a brand new cellphone or are fearful about dropping your present one, you possibly can at all times select to again up your knowledge to the cloud so it doesn’t get misplaced. We’ll routinely encrypt your backed-up knowledge so nobody can learn it, together with Google.
Moreover, whenever you first activate Location Historical past, the auto-delete management might be set to a few months by default, which signifies that any knowledge older than that might be routinely deleted. Beforehand this feature was set to 18 months. If you wish to save recollections to your Timeline for an extended interval, don’t fear — you possibly can at all times select to increase the interval or flip off auto-delete controls altogether.
These adjustments will steadily roll out by way of the subsequent yr on Android and iOS, and also you’ll obtain a notification when this replace involves your account.
