Locations you frequent can also be named on the map, such as a relative’s house or your favorite coffee hangout. Any Google Now user on mobile devices has this feature enabled unless they've manually disabled it.įor more control, the company says you can also delete a specific day, location, or even your full history whenever you want. You will also only see Your Timeline if you’ve enabled location history storing with Google. Hoping to fend off any privacy concerns, Google says Your Timeline is private and visible only to you, and only when you’re signed-in to your Google account. Not everyone is going to be pleased with Your Timeline, however, and Google is taking pains to claim that you are in control of your data. And for those who love the idea of maintaining fine-grain journals of their day, this feature will be a perfect fit for taking trips down memory lane. It’s commendable that Google is making the data it collects about you easily available to you. Why this matters: This is yet another example of what Google can do with your data resulting from the privacy policy changes the company enacted in 2012. If, for example, you visited Coney Island on July 2, as you peruse your voyage around the area that day you’ll see photos next to the entries for the places you took them-assuming you uploaded the images to Google drive, of course.
Mashing up your data even further, Google Photos users will also see any photos they took on a given day at a given location inside the Your Timeline feature. The difference now is that it will be available in a more user-friendly manner right from the Google Maps menu on the desktop or Android. You can already view your location history by diving into the My Account dashboard for your Google account. Google calls Your Timeline “a useful way to remember and view the places you’ve been on a given day, month or year.” The feature allows you to view your entire location history on Google Maps based on data pulled from your devices when signed-in to your Google account. Google is rolling out a new “Your Timeline” feature for Maps over the coming weeks that is certain to thrill some folks-and horrify others.
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