Disable Google Maps Location history

Most of the readers are aware of the fact that many of the Google services will be storing all of the user activity in their servers. Out of the many Google maps is one of the service which is not only storing the location search history but also the actual Location history.

Google is storing all of your location history probably step by step also. Checkout Google’s own location history map, which lets you see the path you’ve traced for any given day that your smartphone has been running Google Maps. This type of logging is available from long back but in the link provided above only user can check upto 30 days. We probably hope that Google is deleting the previous data.

If the user doesn’t need this location history Google provided an option to delete all the history, delete history for a particular time frame and for the users who wants to archive this history they can export their data in KML format.

From your smartphone you can turn-off this logging/reporting. Checkout the attached image for disabling the logging from an IOS device.

• Open Google maps app
• Go to settings of the app and navigate to Location history
• Go to location reporting and say Do not report