

Then select any date and you’ll be shown all the places you’ve visited. In order to see when you visited which places, just go back to “Your timeline” in the menu bar of the Google Maps app and click on the calendar icon in the upper right corner. Tap it to edit the entry, label or delete it. The place will now appear in your timeline. Hit Save at the top right to add the location to your history. This way you can of course disable the function again.Īfter that enter a place that you want to add to your timeline, for instance, your work address or gym. Go to “Personal content” and tap on “Location History is off”. If your Location History is disabled, you have to enable it in the “Settings” first. In the Google Maps app, tap the Menu icon at the top left. You can also add certain places manually. Then Google will automatically create a timeline according to your location, search inquiries and visited websites. To access your Timeline, open Google Maps on your computer or the Google Maps app on your smartphone.In order to create a timeline, you have to enable the location service and location history.

You can use Timeline to review your Location History privately on mobile and desktop, edit it, as well as pause the recording of your Location History and turn it back on. The Timeline gives you an estimate of places you’ve been to and all the routes you’ve taken based on your Google Maps search history. Google Maps offers you one more way to visualize your entire location history and view all the places you’ve searched on one map. How to Use the Timeline to Manage Google Maps Search History You can also manually remove the search entries from the list one by one. There’s an option to delete your previous Google Maps searches from the last hour, last day, and an option to set a custom time. To delete your previous searches using the Google Maps app on your mobile, select Menu > Delete, or Menu > Auto-delete. All items automatically appear in Bundle View on your phone. You can scroll down to browse through your entire search history, use a filter to see the search entries from a specific time, or use the Search your activity search bar to look for a particular place in your Google Maps search history.
