Google Maps is an essential traveling companion thanks to its wealth of useful features. It stores a history of everything you searched and places you visited (if you turned on location data). This ...

But even with all that loyalty, there are a few Google Maps features I keep safely turned off. Some because they don’t fit ...

You can disable Google Maps' Timeline history of where you've gone. You can also disable Google Maps from tracking your travels in the future through the app's settings. Google Maps may be collecting ...

Google Maps, who are you? I'm incredibly surprised to see Google come up with privacy features I'd expect from a competitive navigation app. Not the search giant that makes billions of dollars each ...

Google is rolling out a new Timeline menu on Android that lets you access your Google Maps location history. Google announced last year that it would no longer store your location history on the web, ...

But not to worry because if you had an Android smartphone during your travels with Google Maps installed, then you could be in luck. As long as Location History was one, then finding the places you’ve ...

Jay primarily writes news and deals posts for Android Police. Before joining AP, he spent the past several years yammering on about the crazy world of Android for various tech outlets. Besides ...

If you prefer using Google Maps over Apple Maps on your iPhone or iPad, it's useful to know that you have the ability to manage how long your map search history is stored on Google's servers. This ...

Google has gotten pretty good about allowing you to delete your history on things like search and also Google Maps. Making things a bit safer for those that might be paranoid about Google knowing ...