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Find Google settings in one of these places (depending on your device): In your Settings app Settings, scroll down and tap Google. Open a separate app called G
by frankydp 10y ago
Find Google settings in one of these places (depending on your device):
In your Settings app Settings, scroll down and tap Google.
Open a separate app called Google Settings Google Settings.
Tap Location and then Location History.
At the bottom of the screen, tap Delete Location History.
Also https://maps.google.com/locationhistory https://maps.google.com/locationhistory allows for delete all history.
- problems 10y agoYeah, that's what I remembered, but it seems they replaced "Delete Location History" with a "Manage Activities" button which opens Google Maps and shows you location history, allowing you to delete it but only one day at a time. EDIT: Okay, found it. Follow your instructions then open that "Manage Activities" -> Menu -> Settings -> Scroll down -> Delete All Location History. You _must_ do this for every account if you have multiple.
- 51Cards 10y agoYou _must_ do this for every account if you have multiple. As I would expect? I don't know of any service that has a "And also do this for all my other distinct acounts too".
- codemac 10y agoIt depends how you view what you're setting. Do you think you're setting a behavior of the phone, or a behavior of your account?
- 51Cards 10y agoI guess it could be both but I view it first as a setting of the account since you can also be location tracked perhaps by a browser, or your Wear device? That would be my first go-to on that setting but I guess it can be seen both ways.
- problems 10y agoWear devices have to be paired with a phone and browsers don't really have the constant access they want for this.
- problems 10y agoA global "turn off and delete all location history on this device" would be best, really. At least for turning it off I expected it to be phone wide, not account specific. Deletion yeah, I suppose you're right.
- 0xmohit 10y agoWhat makes you think that deleting location history actually deletes the history? Reminds one of the group of students called Europe v. Facebook [0]: Schrems described the file obtained through a legal request as a 500MB PDF including data the user thought they had deleted. The one sent through a regular Facebook request was a 150MB HTML file and included video (the PDF did not) but did not have the deleted data. [0] https://searchenginewatch.com/sew/news/2114059/facebook-file https://searchenginewatch.com/sew/news/2114059/facebook-file
- problems 10y agoDefinitely, and this is why it needs to be a global option to disable location history - just sending it to them in the first place is the problem!