Google Maps for iOS Gains New Timeline Feature

[MacRumors]

Google today announced that its popular Timeline feature for Google Maps on Android has expanded to Google Maps for iOS, making it available to iPhone and iPad users for the first time.

With Timeline, Google Maps keeps track of all of the places that have been visited, so users can have a past account of where they've been and what they were doing.

What was the name of that antique store I popped into the other day? Where was that coffee shop we discovered on our last vacation? Did I drop off the dry cleaning on Tuesday or Wednesday? Answering questions like these used to take some guesswork (and a great memory). But with Your Timeline on Google Maps, Android and desktop users could quickly revisit the things they've done and places they've been. Starting today, Google Maps users on iOS can join in on the fun and see a daily snapshot of their life as well.

The Timeline is fully editable, with users able to delete a day, date range, or complete location history at any time. It's also customizable with different activity types, so users can mark what they were doing and what mode of transportation was being used.

Place cards of locations or businesses that are searched for in Google Maps will include the dates of past visits and can be used to quickly access Timeline information, plus Google also includes an option to receive monthly emails summarizing all of the places that have been visited.

The new Timeline features are available to iOS users starting today.

Google Maps can be downloaded from the App Store for free. [Direct Link]

Article Link: Google Maps for iOS Gains New Timeline Feature

 

[samcan]

Bringing back Google Latitude features years after they took them away.

This is why Google will never be able to compete with iMessage. They have development ADD. Every time they develop a service they get distracted and start an almost identical version of it and eventually shut one of the two down. GChat, Wave, Hangouts, Allo, ???

Coming next week, Google shuts down google maps.

 

[Chazzle]

I don't even trust Apple with all of that info. Certainly not Google

 

[macfacts]

I don't even trust Apple with all of that info. Certainly not Google

Crazy how Apple let's app devs get all this info about an iPhone user but won't let Walmart/Target or Australian banks get this info

 

[Steve686]

If you're worried about a phone tagging your locations whatever do you do out in public with a myriad of cameras watching your every move?

 

[now i see it]

Google's public acknowledgment that whenever you use any of their services, your data (historical location in this instance) is slurped up & kept in their data centers forever. Man, such a creepy company.

 

[Chazzle]

If you're worried about a phone tagging your locations whatever do you do out in public with a myriad of cameras watching your every move?

Yeah since I'm sure those cameras all have advanced facial recognition and are geotagging every single person walking down the street. Nice try.

 

[lazyrighteye]

Gross. No thanks.

 

[LiveM]

Still no waypoints on mobile app versions? Pathetic.

 

[Kaibelf]

Please Google!? Can you track me PLEASE?!!!? No thank you. I don't need them to share literally where I had my breakfast or took a walk to try to help people sell me nonsense I don't want.

 

[konqerror]

Settings, Privacy, Location Services, System Services, Frequent Locations

Man, at least Google is up front about this.

 

[69Mustang]

Please Google!? Can you track me PLEASE?!!!? No thank you. I don't need them to share literally where I had my breakfast or took a walk to try to help people sell me nonsense I don't want.

Share? Share with whom? Or is this just the usual rhetoric that gets bandied about?

 

[nutriousmitten]

Settings, Privacy, Location Services, System Services, Frequent Locations

Man, at least Google is up front about this.

Exactly. Easy enough to opt out. And delete after the fact. You're generally fooling yourself if you think Apple and Google don't have the ability to track you for advertising and demographic purposes to sell to stuff. It's just displaying it to you on the screen rather than only keeping in in the data farm.
Find my IPhone has saved our family hundreds of dollars after a couple instances of lost and stolen phones over the past 7 years. Applying a layer of where you stopped and how long you were there and when you left is a pretty basic extension of that to be added on to that location data.

 

[stulaw11]

I agree you mine as well go get a flip phone and many devices and apps are tracking you and behavior. AT MOST it is used anonymously for ads etc. Truthfully you are nobody in the grand scheme and no one at Apple/Google/etc cares where you are.

 

[coolbreeze]

This is very useful in my line of work. I am on the road all day and having a record of where I went, when is awesome.

All the tinfoil hats. Lol if you think you're off the radar. Nah. And by the way this info is harvested anyhow if you have google maps installed. It goes back to day one. I used to look at it on a secondary Android device.

I love it. You may not. That's cool.

 

[Zadigre]

You need location history for this new feature to be useful...
But this is sucking all juice from my poor iPhone 7 battery really fast

 

[Steve686]

Yeah since I'm sure those cameras all have advanced facial recognition and are geotagging every single person walking down the street. Nice try.

If someone wants to know where you were at, they can, and will, find out.

Nice try at what by the way?
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Yeah since I'm sure those cameras all have advanced facial recognition and are geotagging every single person walking down the street. Nice try.

You're pinged all day and night by cell towers....

 

[mejsric]

If you're worried about a phone tagging your locations whatever do you do out in public with a myriad of cameras watching your every move?

Those public cameras is for my security, i even pay the government for that, while the others track me so that they can make money on me.

 

[brandonphoto]

So I hold a private pilots license and left my phone on during the flight... never opened google maps today at all and it recorded my drive to the airport with a dark blue line and then recorded a rough estimate of my flight with a light blue line. It also has months of data, going back to may 2016, Including a commercial flight I took from DFW to PHI last month.

 

[Steve686]

Those public cameras is for my security, i even pay the government for that, while the others track me so that they can make money on me.

Doesn't matter "what" they are for. Fact is, you have no expectation of privacy while in public.

 

[mejsric]

Doesn't matter "what" they are for. Fact is, you have no expectation of privacy while in public.

Thats why its called public?

 

[FactVsOpinion]

Crazy how Apple let's app devs get all this info about an iPhone user but won't let Walmart/Target or Australian banks get this info

Different when user downloads service and opts in, and Apple doesn't need to worry if you choose not to opt in.

With Apple Pay, Apple doesn't want to give users a good reason to opt out.

 

[thatanonymoususer]

Crazy how Apple let's app devs get all this info about an iPhone user but won't let Walmart/Target or Australian banks get this info

There's something fundamentally different here. The secure enclave is a hardware solution living outside of the scope of apps. Its purpose is to remain exclusive so that there isn't any way to access it and view what's inside. If there was a breach in an Australian bank's security, it would be a PR nightmare to separate Apple Pay from that bank's insecure implementation. In order to let a third party fidget with Apple's hardware/software implementation, Apple would have to release an SDK and the tools to create the implementation. They would also have to trust that the developers (probably a much smaller team than what Apple uses to secure their service) won't screw it up app-side. I think Apple offering a secure and convenient service is a reasonable solution.

 

[Steve686]

Thats why its called public?

Yet I see such a backlash of people that are afraid to be videoed or photographed by someone else in "public" and call it illegal. Smh.

 

[sudo1996]

Wait, what? Big jump. I can't even re-search my last destination in Google Maps currently.
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Bringing back Google Latitude features years after they took them away.

This is why Google will never be able to compete with iMessage. They have development ADD. Every time they develop a service they get distracted and start an almost identical version of it and eventually shut one of the two down. GChat, Wave, Hangouts, Allo, ???

Coming next week, Google shuts down google maps.

Hey, at least they still have Google Plus.