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Your Google Maps' Timeline history can be disabled or deleted in the app.
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You can disable Google Maps' Timeline history of where you've gone.
You can also disable Google Maps from tracking your travels in the future through the app's settings.
Google Maps may be collecting data on where and how you travel, for how long, and more in its Timeline feature.
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Google Maps generally knows what you're up to. That is, if you have it set up to do so. Google Maps' "Timeline" is a feature that can track location information like where you go, what time you left and came back, what kind of transportation you used, the distance you traveled, and whatever pictures you took while you were doing it.