My google places. How to View and Delete Google Maps History on Android and iOS. Application "X-GPS Monitor"

You can turn off location history on your account at any time. If you're using a work or school account, you'll need administrator permission to access this feature.

1. Go to Activity Tracking in your Google Account.
2. Turn on or turn off location sharing from your account and devices to Google:
   • For your account and all your devices. Tap the switch at the top of the screen Location History.
   • Only for some devices. Select the appropriate checkboxes under "This device" or "Devices associated with this account".

If you turn on location history

• Location information collected from all devices on which you are signed in will be stored. Google account and turned on sending geodata.
• Optionally, you can set up location sharing on each device you're signed in to and specify what data should be included in your location history. Here are the options available to you:
  • report the location of only some devices;
  • report the location of all devices;
  • do not save location history in your account (in this case, your location data will not be transferred to Google).
• Settings selected for similar features (such as Google location or Find My Device) will not change.

If you turn off location history

How to delete location history

IN Google Maps timeline You can edit your location history and delete all or only part of it.

Important! It will be impossible to recover deleted data.

In the Google Maps app

How to delete all location history

How to delete part of location history

How to delete location history in one day

How to remove a single entry from location history

How to set up automatic deletion of location history

You can set up automatic deletion of location history that is stored for 3 or 18 months.

In the Google Maps app

In web browser

What happens after you delete your location history

If you delete all or part of your location history, some personalized features in Google services may not work as well or may be disabled. This applies, for example:

• albums in Google Photos, automatically created for the places you've been;
• recommendations based on places you have already visited;
• real-time information about when it is best to leave so as not to get stuck in traffic on the way home or to work.

Important! If you've turned on certain features, such as your app and web history, but you're using other sites, apps, and Google services, your location may be stored in your Google Account even if you delete or pause your location history. For example, with App History and Web History turned on, location data may be recorded along with information about your activities in Search and Maps and added to photo information (depending on your camera settings).

Usage and diagnostic data

If Location History is enabled, your device may send diagnostic information about the feature to Google. If it is disabled, then you can

In this article, you'll learn how to manage your location information in the Google app, including changing your location history settings and setting your home and work addresses.

Location history

Location history stores data about where you've been with a device that has your Google account. Thanks to this, the Google app can show you useful information, such as suggesting the best itineraries for commuting to and from work.

How to enable or disable location history recording

Note. If you turn off location history, new data about the places you have visited will not be saved. To delete locations you've already saved, clear your location history. After that, some functions of the Google app will not be available to you.

When location history is turned on, Google only stores location information for devices where you're signed in to your Google account and have location history turned on.

How to add a home and work address

By entering your home and work address, you can receive recommendations and other useful information about routes and trips. Here's how to do it:

Note. Home or work location data in the Google app cannot be deleted. To change them, follow the instructions above.

Android tablets and smartphones have excellent functionality due to the large selection of applications that can be downloaded for free from the Google market. But besides this, our beloved Google provides services for tracking the movement of Android devices, remote blocking of the device and in cases of loss, emergency, remote cleaning.

How Google determines location

So, let's understand how Google determines the location. Google calculates the location using:

1. Built-in GPS
2. MAC address (we wrote about this in detail in the article ""?)
3. Mobile networks
4. IP addresses

The most efficient, accurate and faster location of the device is determined if GPS and Wi-Fi are activated on the smartphone.

A big plus of determining via Wi-Fi is that you can already find an approximate location by the IP address assigned to the device, and in the open air, in open space, GPS determines it even better. Together, all these included services allow Google to determine the location of an Android device with an accuracy of several meters.

Android Movement History

Google provides a very convenient online service with which any registered user can see the history and the exact trajectory of the Android device on the map in real time.

In order to start working with the service, we need to register in Google system. If you already have mail, just log in using your mail username and password. It can be done.

To view your travel history, Google recommends using your Chrome browser, preferably latest version). Although it works fine for me Safari browser and in Firefox.

At the top left is the calendar. In it, the user can choose the date of interest to him. After that, a red line of movement will be displayed on the map, with the exact trajectory of movement.

Below is the timeline. Hover over it with the mouse and move along. At the same time, you will see on the map where the device was located in each separate period of time.

How to delete travel history

The user can delete the movement history completely or delete data for a certain period. To delete the entire history, click on the button Delete all history.

If you want to delete the history of movements for a specific, certain period of time, then you must first select the interval in the Show field, and then click on the button Delete data for this period.

How to disable saving the movement history of an Android smartphone

So, we figured out how to track the location of an Android device. Now I want to tell you how to disable this feature.

Whether you know it or not, the history of all your movements is stored from the very first day when you first got an Android smartphone or tablet, and what is even more interesting, it is not cleared automatically. That is, all data about your movement is deposited in the bowels of Google. If you are Vasya Pupkin from 8b, this is not important, but if you suspect that you may be being followed, I strongly advise you to turn off saving the movement history.

By the way, if you need to track a person, you can find out how to do this by reading the article "".

The article will be useful to those who want to track the location of a person on a map who has a smartphone or tablet on Android. A complete set of features and applications with which you can monitor a person has been collected.

Ways to track a person's location
on Android and iPhone

There can be many options for finding out where a person is, from the banal, to find out where the child is now, to where is my husband? The article does not serve to clarify the motive, but only provides tools with which you can perform surveillance on Android.

How to track a person?

All modern smartphones and Android tablets as well as iPhones have GPS, Wi-Fi and mobile communication. While GPS is directly connected to know your exact location, Wi-Fi and GSM/3G/LTE indirectly can also indicate your position.

Our task is to force this information to be transmitted to you in order to track a person on the map exactly from a few meters to a couple of kilometers.

Google and Apple offer several ways to find out the location on the map, for two of them you need to know someone else's account and password.

Method number 1 from Google. Google Maps
(for Android and iOS)

To do this, you, as well as the person whose location you want to track, must have the Google Maps application installed. You need to find out the mail connected to Android device with whom he goes.

You can now track your phone using GPS in real time on your mobile device by opening Google Maps, section "Show me where I am".

Method number 2 from Google. Parental control
(for Android)

For parents who care about their children, there is a wonderful application from Google Developers, entitled " Parental control". This app allows you to:

• Track your child's location

• Control installed apps and remove them if necessary.
• Block the phone if the child sits for a long time
• block unwanted content from children on the Internet

Read more about how to install and configure in our article!

Method number 3. How to track iphone from android and android from iphone?

There are cross-platform applications that allow you to track the movement of a person if he has iPhone or Android!

Application "X-GPS Monitor"

In order to find out where a person is, you will need to install a special application "X-GPS Monitor".

The application does not work in "stealth mode" or "spy mode", that is, it notifies the user that you are trying to find out where he is.

The application works for 3 days in trial mode, then 99 r / month. In order for everything to work as it should, you need to register, install the Monitor application on Android or IOS, or use the web service.

ApplicationGPS Tracking Pro for Android

Install the GPS Tracking Pro App

The tracking method is as follows:

1. Install the application
2. Enter your phone number for registration
3. Invite other users, they install the application
4. Add to the list of needed people
5. Follow the move

Create a profile in Tasker for Android

Method number 4. Find My Device apps for Android and iPhone

Google and Apple have their own services and applications for finding phones.

Remote control (Android)

1. You must know the account and password of the account of the person you are trying to track.
2. Download the Remote Control application or go to the Remote Control page from a computer in a browser
3. Log in with the account of the person you want to track, after which the location of the device on the map will be available to you

Find iPhone

Apple offers a similar service, only for this you need to go to

Not everyone knows yet that all your movements in Google space are recorded and stored by default. And the Google timeline can be viewed in a convenient way on the timeline page.

This feature comes in handy if you've traveled somewhere but can't remember the address (be aware that Google recorded it). Or track the location of the child. Or remember any other thing tied to the map: what, where, when and how long it lasted. For example, the actual duration of the trip from point A to B. And how long you spent at a party or in an institution. While you are sitting, your turned on smartphone with a Google account sends your location data about every minute. And we can return to this moment.

The chronology is updated in real time as you move.

How to view history

Location history is available at https://maps.google.com/locationhistory/ under your account. Let's go there and get such a screen with a wide overview, which can be refined: click on the list of places in the lower left corner or push off from the chronology in the upper left - set the month, day. Here you can turn off the history - stop further recording of locations, and then turn it back on.

How to find a place if you don't remember the address

Let's say you went fishing to an unfamiliar place in nature or to someone's dacha, and your smartphone was turned on as usual. Then you decide to return to the same place, but do not remember exactly how to get there again. This is where Google Timeline comes in handy. We open the map, remember the day, look. We select a point and lay a route to it through the Google Places navigator. Or through another navigator. Here, for example, is a winding route along country paths, which can be restored without knowing either the house number or the street.

How to find out how long they waited for you in the car while you were in the store

Recently I had to go to Auchan while a person was sitting in a car. Delayed. Later it became embarrassing and I decided to see how long I then stayed in Auchan. Based on approximate recollections, we find this day, scroll through the movement tape on the left, and see that we were in Auchan for half an hour. (too much).

What time did you go to the cafe then

Google can determine whether you were sitting still, walking or driving a car - this is understandable in terms of speed. And the trajectory is divided almost correctly into some sections: walking, riding, cycling. The place name is usually correctly identified. Here, you can see that you came to the Almond cafe at 8:07, and left at 8:31 (and you went there, by the way, 700 meters)

How long did the trip last: when did you leave and when did you arrive?

Similarly, you can see how long a long trip along the highway from one city to another lasted. Where were you every minute.

What exact date did you move out of the apartment

It also occurred to me to see what date I moved. It was three years ago and I have already forgotten the details. However, Google did not disappoint - clearly on such and such a date the stay at that address ends. And at the same time, you can see the details of the movements during the move, remember how that day went.

How to enable and disable history from the site

Inclusion

1. Come here.
2. Scroll down the page to Location History.
3. Turn on.

By default, history is stored indefinitely until you delete it.

Shutdown

1. Come in here.
2. Turn off.

Google on phone

If you have the Google Maps app installed on your phone, history is most likely recorded by default. You can check this by simply opening the timeline on your computer, as described above. There is also the Google Places app - maybe it also records, I'm not sure.

In any case, with mobile devices You can also disable and enable history memorization. On Android, history recording is enabled/disabled like this:

1. Open "Settings", select " Account Google"
2. In the "Privacy" section, select "Access my location"
3. Now you can enable or disable "Allow access to my location data"

On iOS devices it is done in a similar way.

But that's not all, you can prevent and allow the sending of location data to a specific phone from the Google Maps application. To do this:

1. Open the Google Maps app on your phone.
2. Click the ||| icon.
3. Select "Settings".
4. Select "Access my location".
5. Select Location History.
6. Device names will be displayed.
7. Enable or disable the desired device.

How to Delete Google Timeline

Go to timeline and click on the trash can icon. A confirmation window will appear. Confirm.

Conclusion

Google Timeline actively tracks your every move in the literal sense of the word, and this comes as a surprise to many. If you don't want to allow tracking, turn it off.

But this opportunity can be very useful: if you need to restore your route or collect fragments of memories of a long-forgotten day in your memory.