Google is rolling out significant changes to its Maps Timeline feature, which tracks your location history. As part of this update, you will soon receive notifications that your Timeline data will ...

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 ...

A glitch has been purging timeline data on Google Maps, and nobody is sure whether they'll be able to get it back or not. advertisement. Tom's Guide.

Launch Google Maps on your phone, tap your profile icon at the top, and then select Timeline. Tap the cloud icon. From the "Your backups" section, select a device, tap More, and then select Import.

The Your Timeline feature will continue to work in Google Maps for Android and iOS. However, this new on-device storage model means “Timeline for Web Maps will be going away.”. Advertisement ...

Now, Google Maps is shifting to a more secure, on-device system. According to Android Police , the new approach will discontinue web access to Timeline, meaning your location data will no longer ...

Changes coming to Google Maps Timeline The Google Maps Timeline will soon be mobile-only. Image: Google. Be aware that the Google Maps Timeline feature will be changing in the next few months.

It’s currently unclear when Google Maps will completely kill Timeline’s web access. The company is seemingly assigning users different deadlines, with one being on December 1, 2024.

Google deleted the Timeline data for many of its Maps users. If you had a backup enabled, you should be able to restore that data, but otherwise, it's likely lost forever.