Bullet points taken from article:
- Google is shutting down the Google Maps Timeline feature on June 9, 2025.
- Personal Maps timelines will be saved on individual devices instead of the cloud beginning on that date.
- Users should begin the migration to on-device Timeline data before June or risk losing all of their past Maps data.
I’m pleased that this potentially sensitive information is moving on-device instead of on Google servers.
I hate this so much!! I can now see what I did at any time back in 2012. And it’s going away? It’s so stupid! I want a choice to keep it is it was!
This is a good thing bucko. You can back it up wherever you want.
How do I back it up, if it lives just on my device? What happens when I switch phones?
In the set up there’s an option to make an encrypted backup to your Google account if you want to hold onto it.