Manage your Location History for iPhone & iPad

Location History is a Google Account–level setting that saves where you go with every mobile device where:

  • You're signed in to your Google Account,
  • You have turned on Location History, and
  • The device has Location Reporting turned on.

When you turn on Location History, you may see a number of benefits beyond Google products and services, including personalized maps, recommendations based on places yous've visited, help finding your phone, real-time traffic updates well-nigh your commute, and more useful ads.

  • Location History is turned off by default for your Google Account and can only be turned on if you opt in.
  • You tin pause Location History at any time in your Google Account's Activity controls.
  • You command what'south saved in your Location History. Y'all tin can view the places where you've been in Google Maps Timeline, which you tin can edit or use to delete your Location History.

Meet & manage your Location History in Timeline

  1. Get to your Timeline.
  2. At the acme left, choose the fourth dimension period you lot desire to see.

Delete Location History

You can manage and delete your Location History information with Google Maps Timeline . You can choose to delete all of your history, or only parts of information technology.

Important: When you delete Location History information from Timeline, you won't be able to see it once again.

Automatically delete your Location History

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

  1. On your iPhone or iPad, open the Google Maps app Maps.
  2. Tap your profile picture or initialAccount Circleand then Your Timeline Timeline.
  3. In the top right, tap More And then Settings.
  4. Nether "Location settings," tap Automatically delete Location History.
  5. Follow the on-screen instructions.

What happens after y'all delete some or all Location History

If you delete some or all of your Location History, some personalized experiences across Google may be degraded or lost. For case:

  • Albums in Google Photos automatically created from places y'all've visited
  • Recommendations based on places you've visited
  • Existent-time information about the best time to exit for home or piece of work in order to beat the traffic

Of import: If you have other settings like Web & App Activity turned on and you intermission Location History or delete location information from Location History, you may still have location data saved in your Google Account equally part of your utilize of other Google sites, apps, and services. For example, location data may exist saved as part of activity on Search and Maps when your Spider web & App Action setting is on, and included in your photos depending on your camera app settings.

Turn Location History on or off

You can plow off Location History for your account at whatsoever fourth dimension. If you use a piece of work or school account, your administrator needs to make this setting bachelor for you. If they exercise, you'll exist able to use Location History as any other user.

  1. Open up the Google app Google app.
  2. At the tiptop right, tap your account photo and then Manage your Google Account. You might need to sign in.
  3. At the top, tap Information & privacy.
  4. Ringlet to "History settings."
  5. TapLocation History.
  6. Plow Location History on or off. If y'all turn Location history off, ostend and tapIntermissionand then Okay.

If you're on a browser, go to the Location History section of your Google Business relationship. You might need to sign in. Plough Location History on or off.

When Location History is on

  • Google only receives Location History for each device where y'all are signed in and you have Location Reporting turned on.

    To see what devices have Location Reporting turned on, under "Google Location History," tap Devices on this business relationship.

    • To turn on Location History on your iPhone or iPad, requite your Google app permission to run into your location: Open your device'due south Settings, and then tap Google and then  Location. Choose Ever.
  • You can change the Location Reporting setting for each device where you're signed in, and limit which devices provide location data to be included in Location History. If you want to change your Location History settings, yous can choose to:
    • Written report your location from only some of your devices, but not others.
    • Report your location from all your devices.
    • Turn off Location History for your Google Account. Your location won't exist reported from any of your devices and yous will not have new Location History recorded to your account.
  • Your settings for other location services on your device, like Google Location Services, Location Sharing, and Find My Device, aren't changed.

When Location History is off

  • Your device's locations will not exist automatically saved to your Location History.
  • Previous activity is non deleted from your Location History. You can manually delete your Location History.
  • Your settings for other location services on your device, like Google Location Services, Location Sharing, and Find My Device, aren't changed.
  • Some location information may keep to be saved in other settings, like Spider web & App Activeness, as part of your use of other services, similar Search and Maps, even after you plow off Location History.

Common bug with location services

Availability

Location History may not be bachelor if:

  • It's non bachelor in your region.
  • You don't see sure age restrictions.
  • Your Google Account is through your work, school, or other group. Your ambassador might need to make this setting available for you.
  • Yous've turned off Location Services or Background App Refresh.

Background App Refresh

Location History can merely work properly if Location Services is fix to Always and Background App Refresh is on.

  • Location Services uses GPS, Wi-Fi hotspots, and cellular network towers to determine your location.
  • Background App Refresh allows Location Reporting to work when you're not actively using a Google app.

Learn more near how to manage Location Services and Background App Refresh.

Data use

Location History tin employ a lot of information. Before using this feature, review the data plan of your device.

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