It is very convenient to know which road to take before going to the destination. And so, many people use Google Maps to see the distance or directions to the destination when going to a familiar or unfamiliar place. Google Maps also saves all the information about the user's destination, including the search information. As a result, it is easy to find out the information about going to that destination later. But recently, the personal travel history of many users on Google Maps has suddenly been deleted. As a result, they have faced a lot of problems.
On the popular social media 'Reddit', a user complained, 'Every day's record for the last three years has suddenly disappeared.' Another wrote, 'I'm scared. The same thing happened to me.' Many users are disappointed after losing their saved travel information for more than 10 years.
The Google Maps timeline feature was previously known as Location History. The feature regularly saves users' daily travel, destination directions, and location information. However, recently, many users are seeing their timeline calendar empty. Different days of travel are shown as 'crossed out' and when tapped on a specific day, a 'no visit' message is displayed.
Recently, Google has announced that it is deleting old information on Google Maps, and that it is implementing a plan to delete information older than 90 days from users' timelines.
Incidentally, by the end of last year, Google had announced that Google Maps' timeline information would not be stored online from June 9, 2025. The information will be stored on users' devices. That is, all information older than 90 days from users will be deleted online. However, Google did not display any warning before deleting old information on Google Maps recently. The company is even deleting information before the scheduled time.
Source: Daily Mail