Reported By: Shaurya Sharma
Last Updated: December 13, 2023, 10:44 IST
Mountain View, California, USA
Google Maps is doubling down on consumer privateness. (Image: News18)
Google, with the addition of recent privateness-targeted options, is doubling down on giving customers extra management in Google Maps. Here’s what you’ll want to know.
Google Maps is a quintessential a part of day by day lives—be it for navigating to a spot you haven’t been to earlier than, to verify how busy a restaurant is, or just to scout a spot earlier than you go to it utilizing the Street View characteristic.
Most of Google Maps’ options are depending on location information, and the corporate has made certain that you’ve got management over it due to instruments like incognito mode and auto-delete, however the search big is now doubling down on giving customers extra management.
In a brand new weblog submit, Google says that it’s bringing the power to save lots of your location timeline in your machine, delete exercise from particular locations, and the power to faucet the blue dot in maps to see issues like whether or not location historical past is on, and what entry Google Maps has.
On-Device Timeline And Encrypted Online Backups
This characteristic will be sure that your timeline is saved proper in your machine itself—supplying you with extra management over your information. Like earlier than, you may nonetheless delete it completely, components of it, or disable it.
However, by default, Google will now retailer as much as solely 3 months of timeline information, and this may be additional elevated as nicely. Or it’s also possible to select to make an encrypted backup if the identical to retailer on-line, and it received’t rely in the direction of your Google account storage.
Delete Activity Related To Specific Places
As you’ll have guessed, this permits customers to delete visits to a selected place, searches you made, and even instructions. This goes to be rolling out to Android and iOS customers within the coming weeks.
Blue Dot Becomes Functional
The blue dot exhibits you the place you might be on maps however now it brings over location-based mostly management proper inside your attain. “Just tap it, and at a glance, you’ll see whether your Location History or Timeline settings are turned on and whether you’ve given Maps access to your device’s location,” Google stated. This, too, could be rolled out to each iOS and Android customers within the coming weeks.
