Google Maps Timeline

Manage your Timeline

Google Maps Timeline is a personal map that helps you remember routes and trips you've taken and places you've been based on your Location History. You can edit your Timeline at any time and delete your Location History in Timeline.

If you have settings like Web & App Activity turned on and you turn off Location History or delete location data from Location History, you may still have location data saved in your Google Account as part of your use of other Google Sites, apps, and services. This activity can include info about your location from your device’s general area and IP address. For example, location data may be saved as part of activity on Search and Google Maps when your Web & App Activity setting is on, and included in your photos, depending on your camera app settings.

Create Timeline

To build your Timeline, you need to turn on your Location Services and Location History. Location History is a Google Account setting that creates Timeline, a personal map that helps you remember routes and trips you've taken and places you've been. Learn more about Location History.

On your iPhone or iPad, open the Google Maps app .
Tap your profile picture or initial Settings .
Tap Personal content and scroll to “Location settings.”
Under “Location settings,” check that it says “Location Services is on.” If it doesn’t, tap Location Services is not set to always Location Always.

Tip: When you turn on Location Services on your device, your iPhone or iPad shares its location with the apps that you use. Location data may be saved as part of your activity on other Google services like Google Search, when other settings are turned on, like Web & App Activity. This activity can include info about your location from your device’s general area and IP address.

Find your travels

On your iPhone or iPad, open the Google Maps app .
Tap your profile picture or initial Your Timeline .
To find another day or month, tap Show calendar swipe left or right and tap a day.

Tip: You can switch between the tabs at the top of the screen, such as Places, Cities, or World, and find insights about places you visited.

Turn Location History on or off

When you turn on Location History, your precise device location is regularly saved — to your devices and Google’s servers, even when Google apps aren’t being used, and creates your Timeline.

To turn Location History on or off:

On your iPhone or iPad, go to Timeline.
Click Settings Turn On Location History or Turn Off Location History.

Learn more about how to manage your Location History.

Edit Timeline

Change the places that you've visited

If a place is wrong on Timeline, you can edit the location and when you were there.

On your iPhone or iPad, open the Google Maps app .
Tap your profile picture or initial Your Timeline .
Find the wrong place on Timeline and tap it.
Tap Edit place.
Tap Search for a place or address, or scroll and select the right place from the list.
To edit when and how long you were there, tap the time.

Tip: If Web & App Activity is turned off, you can’t edit locations or activities on Timeline, but you can delete a day or your entire Location History.

Switch between miles & kilometers

To change how Timeline measures distance, tap your profile picture or initial Account Circle

Settings

Distance units. Then choose Automatic, Kilometers, or Miles.

Find your home & work on Timeline

If you've saved your home and work addresses to Google, they show up on Timeline. In addition to Timeline, this information may also be used in other Google products and services.

Learn how to set your home and work addresses.

Delete a day

Important: When you delete Location History info from Timeline, you can't view it on Timeline in the future. If you have other settings like Web & App Activity turned on and you delete Location History, you may still have location data saved in your Google Account as part of your use of other Google Sites, apps, and services. This activity can include info about your location from your device’s general area and IP address. For example, location data may be saved as part of activity on Search and Maps when your Web & App Activity setting is on, and included in your photos depending on your camera app settings.

On your iPhone or iPad, open the Google Maps app .
Tap your profile picture or initial Your Timeline .
In the top right, tap Show calendar pick the day that you want to delete.
Tap More Delete the day .

Delete Location History

You can delete all or part of your Location History.

On your iPhone or iPad, open the Google Maps app .
Tap your profile picture or initial Your Timeline .
Tap More Settings.
Scroll to “Location settings.”
- Delete some of your history: Tap Delete Location History range set the range Delete.
- Delete everything: Tap Delete all Location History.

Learn more about how to manage or delete your Location History.

Automatically delete your Location History

You can choose to automatically delete Location History that’s older than 3 months, 18 months, or 36 months.

On your iPhone or iPad, open the Google Maps app .
Tap your profile picture or initial Your timeline .
At the top right, tap More Settings.
Under “Location settings,” tap Automatically delete Location History.
Follow the on-screen instructions.

You’re in control

You can always review your data, and any choices you make here, at activity.google.com or your Timeline.

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