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- Google Maps saves former travel data to a personal timeline.
- The timeline has undergone some recent changes, as Google transitions to storage on devices.
- Over the past day, an increasing number of maps users have noticed that their timeline is no longer available.
The last few months have introduced a major change in the way we keep track of where we have been when we use The Timeline feature of Google Maps. After many years of binding this information to your account in an easily accessible way, Google Last year began to push map users to switch to the timeline of the device, where their movement data is just for the specific phone. As the deadline approached, users were asked to make decisions about Keeps its existing storyWhich was anxiety-causing enough of themselves-what would risk losing many years of timeline data? Now this fear is resurrected again, as a number of maps users see that their timelines disappear.
This seems to be a recent trend, with reports of Reddit from users who Ashtripe and Hardrivethrutown pops up during the past day of R/Googlaps Sub, as discovered by 9to5google. Many commentators call into these posts to share similar own stories.
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Affected users describe that they cannot see any previous events in the timeline, nor are access to backups stored on their personal cloud. If you are the type of Maps user who loves to take a trip down the memory field and use the data of the old timelines to help, sounds the idea of ​​many years of trips that suddenly disappear devastating.
The good news, if you can call it it, is that it is not at all clear that some of these timeline data are actually destroyed, and it is quite possible that what we are dealing with here is more a mistake that interferes with users’ ability to access it. It is difficult to diagnose definitely from just these circumstances reports, but at least some people who describe the timeline have recently disappeared also seen it reappear.
We have not observed this error on our own devices, so what may happen, it does not seem to affect all maps users equally. We have reached Google in the hope of illuminating what is actually happening here, and maybe even learning if there is any way ahead to restore the lack of timelines. We update you with everything we can learn.