Manage your Location History for iPhone & iPad

Location History is a Google Business relationship–level setting that saves where you get 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 y'all turn on Location History, yous may see a number of benefits across Google products and services, including personalized maps, recommendations based on places you've visited, help finding your telephone, real-fourth dimension traffic updates about your commute, and more useful ads.

  • Location History is turned off by default for your Google Account and can only be turned on if yous opt in.
  • You lot tin pause Location History at whatsoever time in your Google Account's Activeness controls.
  • You control what's saved in your Location History. You can view the places where you lot've been in Google Maps Timeline, which you can edit or apply to delete your Location History.

See & manage your Location History in Timeline

  1. Go to your Timeline.
  2. At the top left, choose the time period y'all desire to see.

Delete Location History

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

Important: When you lot delete Location History information from Timeline, yous won't be able to meet information technology over again.

Automatically delete your Location History

Yous can choose to automatically delete Location History that'south older than 3 months, xviii months, or 36 months.

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

What happens later you delete some or all Location History

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

  • Albums in Google Photos automatically created from places you've visited
  • Recommendations based on places you've visited
  • Existent-fourth dimension information near the best fourth dimension to leave for home or piece of work in order to crush the traffic

Important: If you accept other settings similar Web & App Activity turned on and you pause Location History or delete location data from Location History, you lot may still accept location data saved in your Google Account as part of your use of other Google sites, apps, and services. For case, location data may be saved every bit 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.

Turn Location History on or off

Yous tin can turn off Location History for your account at whatever time. If you use a work or school account, your administrator needs to brand this setting available for you. If they do, you'll be able to use Location History as any other user.

  1. Open the Google app Google app.
  2. At the top right, tap your account photo and then Manage your Google Business relationship. Yous might need to sign in.
  3. At the top, tap Data & privacy.
  4. Scroll to "History settings."
  5. TapLocation History.
  6. Turn Location History on or off. If you turn Location history off, ostend and tapBreakand then Okay.

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

When Location History is on

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

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

    • To turn on Location History on your iPhone or iPad, give your Google app permission to encounter your location: Open your device's Settings, so tap Google and then  Location. Choose Always.
  • 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 yous want to modify your Location History settings, you lot can choose to:
    • Study your location from simply some of your devices, but non others.
    • Study your location from all your devices.
    • Turn off Location History for your Google Business relationship. Your location won't exist reported from any of your devices and you 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 Discover My Device, aren't changed.

When Location History is off

  • Your device's locations will not be automatically saved to your Location History.
  • Previous activity is non deleted from your Location History. Y'all can manually delete your Location History.
  • Your settings for other location services on your device, like Google Location Services, Location Sharing, and Observe My Device, aren't changed.
  • Some location data may go on to be saved in other settings, like Web & App Action, as office of your utilise of other services, like Search and Maps, even after you turn off Location History.

Mutual issues with location services

Availability

Location History may non be available if:

  • Information technology's not bachelor in your region.
  • You don't meet certain age restrictions.
  • Your Google Account is through your work, schoolhouse, or other group. Your administrator might need to brand this setting available for you.
  • You've turned off Location Services or Background App Refresh.

Background App Refresh

Location History can merely work properly if Location Services is set to E'er and Background App Refresh is on.

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

Learn more about how to manage Location Services and Groundwork App Refresh.

Data use

Location History tin use a lot of data. Earlier using this feature, review the data plan of your device.

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