Google Maps is altering the way in which it handles your location knowledge. As a substitute of backing up your knowledge to the cloud, Google will quickly retailer it domestically in your machine.
In an electronic mail despatched to customers, Google says you will have till December 1st to avoid wasting all of your travels to your cell machine earlier than it begins deleting your previous knowledge. Timeline — beforehand generally known as Location Historical past — is the characteristic that tracks your routes and journeys primarily based in your cellphone’s location, permitting you to revisit all of the locations you’ve been prior to now.
The transition to on-device storage additionally implies that you’ll now not have the ability to entry your Timeline from the net in December. For those who don’t allow the brand new Timeline settings by then, Google will try to maneuver the previous 90 days of your journey historical past to the primary machine you register to Google on. The corporate will then delete any knowledge older than that.
If you wish to maintain utilizing Timeline, open Google Maps in your cell machine, click on in your profile image within the top-right nook of the display, and select Your Timeline. From there, choose whether or not to maintain you wish to maintain your location knowledge till you manually delete it or have Google auto-delete it after three, 18, or 36 months. Google will retailer the data you wish to maintain in your machine.
