How to Check Google Location History on Google Maps?

Location History on Google is a feature that allows Google to track and record your movements based on the data collected from your smartphone. This data includes GPS information, Wi-Fi networks, and cellular towers.

Access to past locations can help you find you way back to a memorable spot or track your travel history. In case your device is lost or stolen, location history can assist in recovery efforts. Now, let's dive into the step-by-step process of checking your Google Location History.

How to See Location History on Google Maps?

You can see your location history to know where you have been on Google Maps by your computer or mobile phone. Once you logged into your Google account, you can get all location history attached to the account.

However, the very first thing before checking location history on Google Maps is that you must turn on the feature in the Google Maps and always keep it on. Open the web or app Google Maps; Click on the menu icon and choose "Settings" > "Privacy". Toggle the Location History feature to on. If you want to turn off location history feature on Google Maps, just toggle it to the off status.

View Location History on Google Maps by Website

1. Open the website of Google Maps and sign in your Google account.
2. Click on the menu icon on the top left with the search bar.
3. Choose Timeline option.
4. Get location history by searching for the duration day, month or year.

Check Location History on Google Maps App

1. Launch the Google Maps app on your mobile device (phone or tablet).
2. Tap on your profile picture next to the search bar.
3. Tap on Timeline.
4. Your location history will be shown. You can check it and see location for particular day by searching in calendar.

How to Delete Location History on Google Maps?

If there is a place you don't want to keep in track, you can delete its location on Google Maps. You can erase manually for a day, all, a range of days, months, or years using the delete function. If you remove everything, you will be left with no location history data. This part contains further information on the delete location history and how to use it.

Delete Location History on Web Google Maps

1. Open Google Maps, click on the three-line menu icon in the top left.
2. Choose your timeline.
3. Click on the Settings (gear icon).
4. Here you can choose to delete all location history, or set up automatically deleting location history.
5. If you want to delete specific locations, choose the day, month, or year range and then delete the locations.

Delete Location History on Google Maps App

1. Open Google Maps App on Android or iPhone.
2. Tap Saved in the middle bottom and choose Timeline.
3. Tap on the 3 dots on the top right corner.
4. Choose "Settings and privacy" from the pop up.
5. Here choose to delete location history range or all location history. You can choose to continuously delete location history connected to the Google account.

How to See Someone's Location History on Google Maps?

In order to protect your loved ones, you may wonder where they have been by seeing their location history. You can see somebody else's location history on Google Maps by getting their Google account credentials which is commonly used and logging into the account.

However, accessing someone's Google account and password is difficult because of privacy significance and protection. Moreover, they will be logged out once you log into their Google account. In order to check someone's location history with knowing, you need FoneWatcher Location Tracker, a phone tracker with stealth mode.

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How to Use FoneWatcher to Track Phone Location without Knowing?

Step 1. Create a free account on FoneWatcher. You can directly sign up for it via button below.

Step 2. Download and install FoneWatcher APK on someone's Android phone.

Step 3. Sign in your account and go to FoneWatcher web panel. Here you can track and check phone location without knowing as well as monitoring whole things on the phone.

FAQs about Google Location History

Google Location History is generally accurate, but it can occasionally have inaccuracies due to various factors such as poor GPS signals or incorrect Wi-Fi data.

Yes, you can access your location history on a computer by visiting the Google Maps website and signing in with your Google account.

Disabling Location History may impact the functionality of certain Google services that rely on location data, such as personalized recommendations.

You can view your location history as far back as the time you started using Google Location History, provided you haven't deleted any data.

Your location history is typically only accessible to you, but it's essential to review your privacy settings to ensure your data remains secure.