History working at all is a more recent change. Previously, if you disabled location history it would only remember POIs that you navigated to. Not addresses. A

History working at all is a more recent change. Previously, if you disabled location history it would only remember POIs that you navigated to. Not addresses. And it allowed you to add local bookmarks, but didn't let you name them. Have fun with a list with some yellow stars with GPS coordinates only. The whole thing was outright unusable for no technical reason, as if nobody at Google had tested "non-treacherous mode", or as if they on purpose sabotaged it.