Google app location settings

Use the instructions below to manage location settings for the Google app, including Location History and setting your home and work addresses.

Location History & Location Reporting

Android

Your Location History is one of the Google Account location settings which stores information about the places you've been.

The Google app uses your past locations to do things like show you traffic updates for your daily commute by learning the route you take to work.

Turn Location History on or off
  1. Visit the Location History page.
  2. Touch Pause or Enable.

Note: When you turn off Location History, you stop saving new information about where you've been. When you turn on Location History, Google only saves this information for devices that are signed in to your Google Account and have Location Reporting turned on.

View your Location History
  1. Visit the Location History page.
  2. Using the menu in the top left of the page, choose your time period.
Delete your Location History
  1. Visit the Location History page.
  2. On the left side of the page, touch Delete all location history > OK.
iPhone and iPad
Send your location to Google (Location Reporting)

Location Reporting helps Google Now show you cards related to traffic alerts, directions, and more.

When Location Reporting is on, Google will periodically use and store information about where your device is throughout the day. Turning Location Reporting off for your iPhone or iPad only turns it off for that device.

Turn Location Reporting on or off

  1. Open the Google app .
  2. In the top left corner of the home screen, touch your photo. (If you’re looking at Google Now cards, scroll up to the top of the page.)
  3. Touch Privacy > Location.
  4. Turn Location Reporting on (blue) or off (grey).
  5. Touch Done.

Note: Other apps by Google may have their own Location Reporting settings. Turning Location Reporting off for Google Now does not affect the settings in those other apps. If another Google app is reporting your location using their own form of Location Reporting, that location information may also be used by other Google products, including Google Now.

Past location information (Location History)

When you turn on Google Now, you turn Location History on for your Google Account. Location History stores your location data from all devices that are signed in to your Google Account and have Location Reporting turned on.

The Google app uses your past locations to do things like show you traffic updates for your daily commute by learning the route you take to work.

Turn Location History on or off
  1. Visit the Location History settings page.
  2. Touch Pause or Enable.

Note: When you turn off Location History, you stop saving new location information. When you turn on Location History, Google only saves location data for devices that are signed in to your Google Account and have Location Reporting turned on.

View your Location History
  1. Visit the Location History page.
  2. Using the menu in the top left of the page, choose the time period you want to see your Location History for.
Delete your Location History
  1. Visit the Location History page.
  2. In the top right corner, click the Settings icon .
  3. Touch Delete all location history > Delete location history.

Set your home and work locations

Set your home and work addresses to get commute traffic information, travel help, and more.

Android
  1. Open the Google app .
  2. In the top left corner of the page, touch the Menu icon menu icon > Customize > Places.
  3. Touch Home or Work and enter in the address.
iPhone or iPad
  1. Open the Google app .
  2. In the top left corner of the home screen, touch the your photo. (If you’re looking at Google Now cards, scroll up to the top of the page.)
  3. Touch Google Now > My stuff > Places.
  4. Touch Home or Work to edit the addresses.

Location Services (iPhone and iPad only)

Location Services is a setting on your iPhone or iPad that lets your device share its location with the apps you use. If Location Services is turned off, Location Reporting and Location History won’t work.

I see a "Location Services is off" card

Follow the steps below to turn Location Services on:

  1. Open the Settings app on your iPhone or iPad .
  2. Touch Privacy > Location Services.
  3. Make sure the Location Services switch is on.
  4. Touch Google > Always.