Google Maps announced that as of December 1, 2024, it will no longer save your journey records on its cloud servers.
According to a report from The Verge, Google is going to remove all of your journey information from its servers shortly and won’t save your location history locally on your smartphone for a brief time.
Chronology is a function that uses the location of the smartphone to monitor the travels of its users.
The company will now attach all of this data to devices rather than Google accounts.
Google has redesigned the location history function and given it a new name, Timeline, under the direction of CEO Sundar Pichai.
Timeline, formerly called location History, is a feature that lets you go back and revisit all the locations you’ve visited in the past by tracking your routes and journeys depending on the location of your phone.
With this updated functionality, users should be able to get a detailed history of their whereabouts, including the locations and restaurants they frequently visit.
The move towards local data storage on devices is hailed as an initiative to give people more control over their private data. Although Google has provided guarantees about the security of cloud services, this new strategy seeks to allay worries about the privacy of personal information.
Google said in an email to consumers that you have until December 1st to preserve all of your trip data on your mobile device before it begins to erase historical data.
Newsng understands that you may also choose the duration of the history’s storage on your device—3, 18, or 36 months—in the Google Maps settings, or you can remove it yourself.
We earlier reported that you can now minimise a Chrome custom tab in a Picture-in-Picture window using a newly launched feature, “Minimised Chrome Tabs”, in Google Chrome.
