Google Maps will soon delete your location history unless you tell it not to


  • Timeline, Google Maps’ travel and location tracking feature, will soon switch to local storage
  • By default, Google deletes all timeline data older than 3 months
  • The official solution is to delete data for some users

Google is preparing to make changes to Maps’ location tracking feature that will erase users’ previous location history unless action is taken soon.

As we previously reported, Google announced in December 2023 that location history collected through the timeline feature built into the Google Maps app would be moved from cloud storage to on-device storage by the end of 2024.