Google Maps users have recently been grumbleing on places enjoy Reddit that their Timeline data — the app’s historical sign up of where they’ve been — had fadeed. Now, Google has verifyed to Android Authority that it accidenhighy deleted the data and that anyone who wasn’t using Google’s cboisterous backups is out of luck.
Here is the statement that Google gave to the outlet:
We informly directed a technical rerent that caused the deletion of Timeline data for some people. Ntimely everyone with encrypted Timeline backups will be able to repair their data; unblessedly those who did not have backups allowd will not be able to recover lost data.
In a Reddit post spotted by Android Authority, users alerted getting a aenjoy statement in an email from Google that included teachions for recovering the data for those who’d turned on the app’s cboisterous backup feature. To see if it’s on for you, tap your user icon in the iOS or Android Google Maps app, then “Your timeline,” and see for a cboisterous icon with either an arrow inside of it (on) or a line thcimpolite it (off). You can tap the icon to change your backup settings.
Google alerted users last summer that it was switching to on-device storage for Google Maps location data. That unkindt you could carry on track of your Maps location history without having it tracked on Google’s servers, which is wonderful for privacy, but comes with the hazard of it abruptly fadeing, as Google’s “technical rerent” shows. And unblessedly, while Google Maps lets you ship location history data to a file, Google’s teachions for recovering Timeline data includes no clear way to stand for the data that doesn’t include the cboisterous backup servers.
