- Google Maps timelines are disappearing for some customers
- It appears to be a Google One situation, however there is no identified repair
- Fortunately not everyone seems to be affected, however it’s irritating for many who are
Google Maps timelines are disappearing, and never solely is there no assured repair for the problem proper now, it isn’t clear if this can be a everlasting elimination or solely a brief glitch.
At first look, experiences of individuals’s timelines being misplaced looks like they may have fallen afoul of Google Map’s huge privateness change: your Google Maps timeline is transferring from the cloud to your machine, and until you agree to numerous new settings by a deadline date (which is totally different for various customers, weirdly) you’ll lose your journey historical past.
Nevertheless, based on experiences within the Google Maps subreddit (noticed by 9to5Google), it’s an unrelated situation because it’s affecting individuals who have agreed to backup their timeline domestically. What’s extra, they’re unable to revive outdated backups (even when they delete and reinstall the Maps app), and a few are noting that new visits aren’t being tracked both.
Some customers have posted saying that Google Assist blames the problem on Google One, and that Google is engaged on a repair, although, on the time of writing, there doesn’t look like a dependable methodology for getting your timeline again.
There was a time when restoring a backup appeared to work, nonetheless, the problem has gone on so lengthy the backups are actually being overwritten – or just can’t be restored – that means this selection isn’t obtainable anymore.
Why is it such a giant deal?
Fortunately, the problem doesn’t appear to be impacting everybody – the Google Maps timeline on our gadgets seems to be effective, for instance – however that is however irritating.
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Whereas having Google monitoring your location sounds lower than supreme for a lot of, having a timeline of their journey historical past is a dream come true for lots others. It serves as a useful gizmo for reminiscing about holidays, or discovering a location you need to return to later – equivalent to a restaurant you stopped on the different day, or a museum you didn’t spend sufficient time in in your final journey away.
I really like trying again by way of my timeline and can be disillusioned if my journey historical past was ripped from me by a glitch – particularly as proper now there’s no phrase on when customers’ timelines shall be restored.
From the sounds of issues, it needs to be a glitch Google can resolve, however, for now, everybody affected must wait and see when a repair is shipped out.
