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My aunt lost her Android phone. I thought I knew of a cool way to show her to find it using Timeline in Maps. We could maybe tell where it last was located? No
by dghughes 2y ago
My aunt lost her Android phone. I thought I knew of a cool way to show her to find it using Timeline in Maps. We could maybe tell where it last was located? No luck because Google has discontinued Timeline in Maps from desktop it's now only available on the phone on Android.
"Timeline is no longer available on web browsers. To view or change your Timeline settings, go to Activity controls."
- Iulioh 2y agoAnother disastrous thing is the miriade of settings in the Google app Me and my mother share a Google One account to have more storage for photos and turns out that we share the calendar. I really tried to find out how the fuck i disable it but nothing, i got in a 2008 ass settings page in the search of how to disable it but nothing. Settings page only available on desktop, the mobile version was the 2008 style page. What's the consistency there? But the most important part, why the fuck would you make it a default?
- dosinga 2y agoI think Google did this to protect their users from snooping. If they have everybody's timeline on their servers, governments can request that information. And governments like to do that: https://transparencyreport.google.com/user-data/overview?hl=en https://transparencyreport.google.com/user-data/overview?hl=...
- AeroNotix 2y agoNot sure if there are multiple products called "Timelines" but I can access my timeline on maps.google.com just fine and it has all my latest data.
- rafram 2y agoThat was an improvement. Google has Find My Device for that situation. Hopefully she had it set up.
- ghusto 2y agoI keep hearing this, and yet can still access it? Is it dying slowly?