Manage your Google Maps Timeline

Timeline helps you go back in time and remember where you’ve been by automatically saving your visits and routes to your Google Maps Timeline on each of your signed-in devices. You can edit your Google Maps Timeline or delete your Timeline data at any time.

When you back up your Timeline data, Maps saves an encrypted copy of your data on Google’s servers.
As long as you’ve turned on backup, you can import your data onto a different device, even if you lose or damage your device.

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Manage your Timeline

Important: You can find your Timeline on the Google Maps app version 11.106 and up. If your Google Maps app is older, update your app. Timeline isn't available on Android Go devices.

Turn on Timeline

When you turn on Timeline, you consent to Google regularly saving each of your devices’ precise locations to show you where you’ve been, including when Google apps aren’t open.

On your Android phone or tablet, open the Google Maps app .
Tap your profile picture or initial Your timeline .
Tap More Location & privacy settings.
Under “Location settings,” check that it says “Location is on.”
- If it doesn’t:
  1. Tap Location is off.
  2. Turn on Location.
Under “Location settings,” check that it says “Timeline is on.”
- If it doesn’t:
  1. Tap Timeline is off.
  2. Turn on Timeline.

Back up your Timeline data

You can automatically back up your Timeline if you need to switch devices. When you back up your Timeline data, it saves an encrypted copy of your data on Google’s servers.

Important: It can take a few days for changes to your Timeline to reflect in a backup.

Turn on backup on your device

Delete backup for your device

Delete backup for all your devices

Import your Timeline data from a backup

To move an existing backup to a different device or import your Timeline on a new device, you can import your Timeline data from a backup:

On your Android phone or tablet, open the Google Maps app .
Tap your profile picture or initial Your timeline .
At the top right, tap the cloud .
From the “Your backups” section, select a device.
Tap More Import.
On the “Import Timeline from backup” screen, tap Import.

Find your travels

When Timeline is on, your Google Maps Timeline shows where and how you traveled, like walking, biking, driving, or on public transport.

On your Android phone or tablet, open the Google Maps app .
Tap your profile picture or initial Your timeline .
To find another day or month, at the top, tap Today. Swipe left or right on the calendar and tap a day.

Tip: You can switch between the tabs at the top of the screen, such as Places, Cities, or World, and find insights about places you visited.

Edit your Google Maps Timeline

Important: When you edit your Timeline, you can choose to share your edits and related data with Google. This helps Timeline more accurately reflect the places you visit and helps improve Maps for everyone. You can manage this setting at My Google Activity.

Change the places you visited & activities you've done

Switch between miles & kilometers

Delete Timeline data

Important: When you delete Timeline data, it will be permanently deleted and can’t be recovered. You may still have Timeline data on another device and Timeline backups. If you have other settings like Web & App Activity turned on and you turn off Timeline or delete your Timeline data, you may still have location data saved in your Google Account, or on other Google sites, apps, and services you use. For example, location data may be saved as part of activity on Search and Maps when your Web & App Activity setting is on, and included in your photos depending on your camera app settings.

You can manage and delete your Timeline data with Google Maps Timeline. You can choose to delete all of your history, or only parts of it.

If you edit or delete your Timeline data on one device, those changes won’t be reflected on other devices.
If you factory reset your device or clear Google Play services data, you'll delete Timeline data from your device.

Delete all Timeline data

Delete a range of Timeline data

Delete a day from Timeline

Delete a visit from Timeline

Automatically delete your Timeline data

You can choose to automatically delete Timeline data that’s older than 3 months, 18 months, or 36 months.

On your Android phone or tablet, open the Google Maps app .
Tap your profile picture or initial Your timeline .
At the top right, tap More Location & privacy settings.
Under "Location settings," tap Auto-delete Timeline.
Follow the on-screen instructions.

Turn off Timeline

To turn Timeline off:

On your Android phone or tablet, open the Google Maps app .
Tap your profile picture or initial Your timeline .
Tap More Location & privacy settings.
Tap Timeline is on.
Under “Timeline,” from the dropdown menu, tap Turn off or Turn off and delete activity.

Improve the accuracy of Timeline

Occasionally, you may find mistakes on your Google Maps Timeline. For example, when you're in dense urban areas, your Timeline may show that you visited one restaurant when you actually dined at another nearby.

To help us improve the accuracy of your Timeline to limit mistakes, you can turn on “Web & App Activity.” Learn how to find & control your Web & App Activity.

Tips & tricks

Find the last time that you visited a place

Find your home & work on Timeline

You’re in control

Timeline is off by default for your Google Account and can only be turned on if you opt in.

You'll keep your Timeline based on your auto-delete settings, or until you delete it. You can turn off or delete all, or only parts of your Timeline for your account at any time in My Google Activity or your Timeline.

Learn how to manage your Timeline data.

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