Here's How To View Travel History And Amount Of Time On Google Maps
JAKARTA - Google Maps is a web mapping service developed by Google since 2005. The service provides satellite imagery, street maps, 360-degree panoramas, traffic conditions, and route planning for traveling by foot, car, bicycle or public transport.
Google Maps offers a lot of features, making it stand out from similar competitor apps. One of the interesting features in Google Maps is the Timeline.
The Google Maps timeline is one of the platform's important features, allowing you to see the places you've been in the past and the routes you've taken to get there.
How to View Your Google Maps Location History
The Timeline feature makes use of this giving you a way to check your location history. But before that, the thing to note is that you have to enable Location History for your Google account to use the feature.
By turning on Location History, you can see countries, cities, and other places like restaurants, malls, etc., that you've been to before.
To check if you have enabled Location History feature, you can follow this method.
Open Google Maps Tap your profile icon or letter in the top right. Select Your Data in Maps from the pop-up menu. If you see On under Location History, it means you have it turned on. Otherwise, Google will take you to a page where you can reactivate it by tapping Activate.If you recently turned on your current Location History, and you deleted previous data to protect your privacy on Google Maps, nothing will be on your Timeline.
How to View Your Google Maps Timeline
If you've had Location History turned on for a long time, you can see the places you've been in the Google Maps app this way.
Sign in Google Maps Tap your profile icon or letter in the top right. Choose your Timeline from the pop-up menu. Google will take a few seconds to load the Timeline page.The Timeline page will display today's location history and provide additional data on how you got there and the time spent.
If you want to see your previous trips, select the Trips tab at the top. Google will show you the number of trips you've taken, how long they were, and in what month and year.
The amount of data in your Google Maps Location History depends on how long the Location History feature has been enabled in your account.