Google Maps offers the possibility to its users to create a chronology of the journeys we make on a daily basis. This can be useful to know where we have been on a specific day as a personal diary and in this article we tell you how to consult and manage this data.
What does Google Maps TimeLine work for?
Sometimes when we are asked what we did on a specific day of the week we do not know very well what to answer… were we at home or in the cinema? This question can be easily solved if we allow Google Maps to record all our steps. In this way we can access the app, select the specific day we want to consult and see the exact times of our trips.
Obviously, here are the unknowns about our privacy, but it is something that we can decide whether to use or not. When starting Google Maps we choose whether we want the location to be always active or only when using the app.
Activate travel timeline
Obviously, in order to use this Google function, you must grant the application the required permissions. Mainly what the application asks for a comprehensive follow-up is that the location is always activated. In this way you can know thanks to the GPS if we are at work, when we return home or when we are going to make the purchase or other activity.
Here comes the confidence that we can have in the protection that Google applies to our data. In theory, only we can see the movements we make as a personal diary. If you do not want the application to know where you are at all times, you should not activate these options.
In addition to privacy, having the location always active affects in a very negative way the autonomy of your team. So if the battery doesn’t reach the end of the day to spare you shouldn’t activate it.
Once we have decided to activate it, we simply have to open the Google Maps application on our iPhone or iPad and follow the following steps:
- In the upper right corner on the circle of your account and in the pop-up window click on ‘Settings’.
- Access the part that says ‘personal content’.
- Scroll until you find the phrase ‘location is not set to’ Always ” . Click on the phrase.
- The iPhone settings will open and click on the first option of ‘Location’.
- Select ‘Always’.
Once this is done, Google Maps will have access to our location even if we are not using the app. This will automatically activate the chronology function where all movements will be registered.
Check where you have traveled with Google Maps
When we have used this function of the app enough, we may want to consult all our movements. Doing it is quite easy since you simply have to follow the following steps:
- Enter Google Maps.
- In the upper right corner, click on your account icon.
- Go to ‘Your Timeline’.
In this section we can filter the result by days, places, cities or the whole world. To adjust the search in the upper right corner we have the icon of a calendar. In this way we can select the range of days that we want to consult or a specific day.
Delete location history from Google Maps
The theory says that we are the masters and masters of our personal data such as location. This is why Google includes a series of interesting options to be able to delete the location history. To do this process, simply follow these steps:
- Access the circle of your account in the upper right corner and click on ‘Your timeline’.
- Once here, click on the three points that appear in the upper right corner and then ‘Settings and privacy’.
- Scroll down to where it says ‘Delete all location history’ to delete all the data stored in your linked Google account.
- If you want to delete specific moments you can choose the option ‘Delete a period from the location history’ or ‘Delete location history automatically’.
In this way we will have the possibility of deleting all our history and the data stored on Google’s servers.
