Despite the different competitors it has had to face in recent years, Google Maps continues to be one of the most used navigation apps worldwide. Now, Google wants to promote user privacy, even if that means losing the potential of one of the most curious features of the tool.
Google Maps is one of our favorite applications when we want guidance to cover any route or consult all kinds of information about the businesses closest to us. Among all the functionalities it contemplates, there is one that allows us record all our movements in the background and consult them whenever we want: the chronology. To access it, just open the Google Maps application, click on our profile photo and click on the “Timeline” button.
Now, Google would be about to delete the history of all its users in a new move to try to preserve their privacy. According to Tech Radar, the technology company is going to stop store this data in the cloud and will store them locally on the devices we use. But with a memory of only 90 days. All previous data will be lost if we do not make a backup copy first.
A warning email
The previously mentioned media states that some users have already begun to receive an email warning of this change. In it, it is detailed that all those who want to keep the data that they have been accumulating during recent years have until December 1 of this year to make a backup of all the information found in the history.
In the event that said email is omitted and no action is taken, the company warns that this could mean the total or partial loss of data. Google, in this case, will try to move the history only the last 90 days to the first device you log in with once the deadline has passed. All trips older than three months will be automatically deleted.
A phased deployment
The vast majority of Google users who use this function have not yet received no notification in this regard. Therefore, it seems that the technology company would be betting on a deployment of this type of notices in phases.
However, on the support page that Google has enabled for this, which can be accessed access from this linkyes we can know information about the steps we must follow to start carrying out a backup with all the data from our timeline that is stored in our account.
In this way, we will always have the guarantee that there will be a copy in the cloud in the event that, finally, Google chooses to only show the location history of the last 90 days to its users.
