Manage your Location History for iPhone & iPad

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

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

When you plough on Location History, you may see a number of benefits across Google products and services, including personalized maps, recommendations based on places you've visited, assist finding your phone, real-time traffic updates virtually your commute, and more useful ads.

  • Location History is turned off by default for your Google Account and can merely be turned on if you opt in.
  • You tin can intermission Location History at whatever fourth dimension in your Google Account's Activity controls.
  • You control what's saved in your Location History. You tin view the places where you lot've been in Google Maps Timeline, which you can edit or utilize to delete your Location History.

See & manage your Location History in Timeline

  1. Become to your Timeline.
  2. At the top left, cull the time catamenia you desire to see.

Delete Location History

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

Of import: When yous delete Location History information from Timeline, yous won't be able to see it over again.

Automatically delete your Location History

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

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

What happens after you 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 example:

  • Albums in Google Photos automatically created from places you lot've visited
  • Recommendations based on places y'all've visited
  • Real-time information nigh the best time to leave for home or piece of work in social club to trounce the traffic

Important: If yous take other settings like Web & App Activity turned on and you interruption Location History or delete location data from Location History, y'all may still have location information saved in your Google Account as office of your use of other Google sites, apps, and services. For example, location information may exist saved every bit part of activity on Search and Maps when your Spider web & App Activeness setting is on, and included in your photos depending on your camera app settings.

Turn Location History on or off

You can turn off Location History for your business relationship at any fourth dimension. If you lot use a work or school account, your administrator needs to make this setting available for you. If they do, y'all'll be able to apply Location History as whatever other user.

  1. Open up the Google app Google app.
  2. At the top right, tap your account photograph and then Manage your Google Account. You lot might need to sign in.
  3. At the top, tap Data & privacy.
  4. Scroll to "History settings."
  5. TapLocation History.
  6. Plough Location History on or off. If you plough Location history off, confirm and tapSuspensionand then Okay.

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

When Location History is on

  • Google only receives Location History for each device where you are signed in and you take Location Reporting turned on.

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

    • To turn on Location History on your iPhone or iPad, requite your Google app permission to run into your location: Open up your device'south Settings, then tap Google and then  Location. Choose Always.
  • Yous can change the Location Reporting setting for each device where you're signed in, and limit which devices provide location information to be included in Location History. If you desire to modify your Location History settings, y'all can choose to:
    • Report your location from simply some of your devices, but not others.
    • Study your location from all your devices.
    • Turn off Location History for your Google Business relationship. Your location won't be reported from any of your devices and you will non have new Location History recorded to your business relationship.
  • Your settings for other location services on your device, like Google Location Services, Location Sharing, and Notice My Device, aren't changed.

When Location History is off

  • Your device'southward locations will not be automatically saved to your Location History.
  • Previous activity is not deleted from your Location History. You lot can manually delete your Location History.
  • Your settings for other location services on your device, similar Google Location Services, Location Sharing, and Find My Device, aren't changed.
  • Some location data may continue to be saved in other settings, like Web & App Activity, equally part of your use of other services, like Search and Maps, even after you turn off Location History.

Common issues with location services

Availability

Location History may not be available if:

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

Background App Refresh

Location History can only work properly if Location Services is set to Ever 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 nearly how to manage Location Services and Background App Refresh.

Data use

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

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