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10 Clever Google Maps Settings Everyone Should Be Using Share Photo: ambimages, Shutterstock Every time you head out to a new location, there’s a good chance you instinctively pull up Google Maps to help guide you there — there’s no better tool out there for navigation and traffic updates. But even if you use it practically every day, there’s a good chance that you haven’t made the most of some of its better features. The service has a lot of useful (but buried) tools — and it’s time you check them out. Review your navigation settings Route options in Google Maps. (Photo: Pranay...

Picked by Techconnect's Editors Google collects a lot of data about you if you use the company’s services. To its credit, the company makes finding and deleting that data easy by showing most of it on a single website. Here’s how to see the bulk of what Google knows about you, and how to delete it if you want.  Once you delete data from your Google Account, the company immediately starts removing it and stops using it for personalization. “We then begin a process designed to safely and completely delete the data from our storage systems,” Google explains. It may be forced to keep so...

PC World New Zealand How to see what Google knows about you, and delete it Google, like many other big tech companies, knows a lot about you. Google collects a lot of data about you if you use the company’s services. To its credit, the company makes finding and deleting that data easy by showing most of it on a single website. Here’s how to see the bulk of what Google knows about you, and how to delete it if you want.  Once you delete data from your Google Account, the company immediately starts removing it and stops using it for personalization. “We then begin a process designed to ...

Google My Activity is now available in dark mode on the web Whether you're using an Android phone or an Assistant-enabled speaker, most of what you do is saved by Google. This is a great way of checking what your speaker understood when it gave you an awkward answer, but also a rather disturbing way of seeing all the apps you've been using on your phone on a given day. Because it's usually more comfortable to check that history on a desktop computer, Google has given its My Activity page a dark mode option, making it easier on the eyes and helping you save battery.

When the full side menu is open, click on Your Timeline. This will bring up a complete map of where you have been and the number of places you checked into. Data of places you visited can also be recalled by opening the side menu, clicking on Your Places, and then clicking Visited. As Google explains on its website, Location History “saves where you go with your devices, even when you aren’t using a specific Google service.” Gee, thanks. RELATED: How to turn it off It is creepy that Google can track your movements without you even realizing it. Here is how you can turn it o...