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.

Manage your Timeline

Important: You can find your Timeline on the Google Maps app version 6.93 and up. If your Google Maps app is older, update your app.

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.

1. On your iPhone or iPad, open the Google Maps app .
2. Tap your profile picture or initial   Your timeline .
3. Tap More Location & privacy settings.
4. Under “Location settings," check that it says “Location Services is on.”
   • If it doesn’t, tap Location Services is not set to always Location Always.
5. Under “Location settings,” tap Timeline is off.
6. Under “Timeline,” tap Turn on Turn on.

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

Important: To turn on backup, auto-delete must be off.

1. On your iPhone or iPad, open the Google Maps app .
2. Tap your profile picture or initial Your timeline .
3. At the upper right, tap the cloud .
4. If auto-delete is turned on, turn it off.
   • To turn off auto-delete, tap Don’t auto delete activity.
5. On the Backup screen, turn on Backup.
6. Tap Yes.

Delete backup for your device

Important: Turning off and deleting backups doesn't delete the Timeline data saved on any of your devices. You can turn backups on again at any time.

1. On your iPhone or iPad, open the Google Maps app .
2. Tap your profile picture or initial Your timeline .
3. At the upper right, tap Backup .
4. From the “Your backups” section, select a device.
5. Tap More Delete.
6. Tap Turn off & delete.

Delete backup for all your devices

Important: Turning off and deleting backups doesn't delete the Timeline data saved on any of your devices. You can turn backups on again at any time.

1. On your iPhone or iPad, open the Google Maps app .
2. Tap your profile picture or initial Your timeline .
3. At the upper right, tap Backup .
4. Turn off Backup this device.
5. On the “Turn off and delete backup” screen, tap Turn off & delete.

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: 

1. On your iPhone or iPad, open the Google Maps app .
2. Tap your profile picture or initial Your timeline .
3. At the upper right, tap the cloud .
4. From the “Your backups” section, select a device.
5. Tap More Import.
6. On the “Import Timeline from backup” screen, tap Import.

Find your travels

1. On your iPhone or iPad, open the Google Maps app .
2. Tap your profile picture or initial   Your timeline .
3. To find another day or month, tap Show calendar .
4. Swipe left or right.
5. 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 reflect the places you visit and helps improve Maps for everyone. You can turn off this setting and delete your previously shared data anytime at My Google Activity.

Change the places that you've visited

If a place is wrong on Timeline, you can edit the location and when you were there.

1. On your iPhone or iPad, open the Google Maps app .
2. Tap your profile picture or initial   Your timeline .
3. At the bottom right, tap Edit Edit day .
4. Scroll to the incorrect entry in your Timeline.
5. From the “Select place” dropdown menu, select a place.
   • If the place isn’t available, tap Search for a place.
6. To change the time of the visit, tap the entry time.
   • After you enter the correct time, tap Save.
7. Tap Done.

Tip: To remove the incorrect time period, next to the entry, tap More Remove.

Switch between miles & kilometers

To change how Google Maps Timeline measures distance:

1. On your iPhone or iPad, open the Google Maps app .
2. Tap your profile picture or initial Settings Distance units.

3. Select Automatic, Kilometers, or Miles.

Find your home & work on Timeline

If you've saved your home and work addresses to Google, they show up on Timeline. In addition to Timeline, this information may also be used in other Google products and services.

Learn how to set your home and work addresses.

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 delete Google Maps, you'll delete Timeline data from your device.

Delete all Timeline data

1. On your iPhone or iPad, open the Google Maps app .
2. Tap your profile picture or initial   Your timeline .
3. At the top right, tap More Location & privacy settings.
4. Under "Location settings," tap Delete all Timeline data.
5. Follow the on-screen instructions.

Delete a range of Timeline data

1. On your iPhone or iPad, open the Google Maps app .
2. Tap your profile picture or initial   Your timeline .
3. At the top right, tap More Location & privacy settings.
4. Under "Location settings," tap Delete range of Timeline data.
5. Follow the on-screen instructions.

Delete a day from Timeline

1. On your iPhone or iPad, open the Google Maps app .
2. Tap your profile picture or initial   Your timeline .
3. At the top, tap Today.
4. On the calendar, swipe left or right.
5. Tap the day you want to delete.
6. Tap More Delete day.
7. Tap Delete.

Delete a visit from Timeline

1. On your iPhone or iPad, open the Google Maps app .
2. Tap your profile picture or initial   Your timeline .
3. At the top, tap Today.
4. On the calendar, swipe left or right.
5. Tap the day you want to delete.
6. Next to the visit you want to delete, tap More Remove.
7. Follow the on-screen instructions.

Automatically delete your Timeline data

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

1.  On your iPhone or iPad, open the Google Maps app .
2. Tap your profile picture or initial   Your timeline .
3. At the top right, tap More Location & privacy settings.
4. Under “Location settings," tap Auto-delete Timeline data.
5. Follow the on-screen instructions.

Turn off Timeline

To turn Timeline off:

1. On your iPhone or iPad, open the Google Maps app .
2. Tap your profile picture or initial   Your timeline .
3. Tap More Location & privacy settings.
4. Tap Timeline is on.
5. 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

If your visit to a place is saved in your Timeline, you can find the last time that you visited in Google Maps.

1. On your iPhone or iPad, open the Google Maps app .
2. Search for a place or tap it on the map.
3. Scroll to bottom.
4. Tap Your visits and Maps activity.

Tip: You can only find this info if the place is already in your Timeline on that device.

Find your home & work on Timeline

If you've saved your home and work addresses to Google, they show up on Timeline. In addition to Timeline, this information may also be used in other Google products and services.

Learn how to set your home and work addresses.

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.

Related resources

• Update Google Maps to use Timeline on your device
• Manage your Timeline data
• How Google keeps your Timeline data private