Important: When you delete Location History information from Timeline, you won't be able to see it again. You can choose to delete all of your history, or only parts of it. You can manage and delete your Location History information with Google Maps Timeline.

Some location data may continue to be saved in other settings, like Web & App Activity, as part of your use of other services, like Search and Maps, even after you turn off Location History.

You can manually delete your Location History.

Previous activity is not deleted from your Location History.

Your device's locations will not be automatically saved to your Location History.

Your settings for other location services on your device, like Google Location Services, Location Sharing, and Find My Device, aren't changed.

Your location won't be reported from any of your devices and you will not have new Location History recorded to your account.

Turn off Location History for your Google Account.

Report your location from all your devices.

Report your location from only some of your devices, but not others.

If you want to change your Location History settings, you can choose to:

You can change the Location Reporting setting for each device where you're signed in, and limit which devices provide location data to be included in Location History.

If they do, you'll be able to use Location History as any other user. If you use a work or school account, your administrator needs to make this setting available for you. You can turn off Location History for your account at any time. Important: Some of these steps work only on Android 8.0 and up. You can view the places where you’ve been in Google Maps Timeline, which you can edit or use to delete your Location History.

You control what’s saved in your Location History.

You can pause Location History at any time in your Google Account's Activity controls.

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

When you turn on Location History, you may see a number of benefits across Google products and services, including personalized maps, recommendations based on places you’ve visited, help finding your phone, real-time traffic updates about your commute, and more useful ads.

The device has Location Reporting turned on.

You have turned on Location History, and.

You're signed in to your Google Account,.

Location History is a Google Account–level setting that saves where you go with every mobile device where:

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