Google Maps Just Made It Easier to Hide Your Life

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If you give me access to your place, I will be the one who will always check you and bring it up the next time I see you. “So,” I would begin casually, “what did you do in town last week?” Then you asked me how I knew it was down there. I remind you that you gave me the opportunity one summer ago and you never took it away.

If you have a person like me who uses Google Maps, there is good news: it will be much easier to protect yourself from a periodic check of a loved one in the time itself latest update pick up your phone. The privacy-conscious feature prevents Google from seeing where you go without tapping through a million screens to find the key.

Now, when you tap on your “blue thing” on the map – to show your location in Google Maps – you will see a new section of Location History options at the bottom under the screen. You can click kill button for your device location and location history from here. It helps if, i Google examples, you’re planning a surprise party for someone and you want them to avoid getting caught. But like The Verge frankly, this can also be a lifesaver for people in critical situations that require incognito. Google says the ability to delete location-related content from Maps will begin rolling out to Android and iOS in the coming weeks.

Google also explained some of the maps that are coming in the update pipeline. If you are one of the people who use Location History – I do, for example, remember the places I have been for a long time – the information will be saved directly to your device instead of being used in on top of the cloud. Google says the data is automatically encrypted, and even if you upload it to the cloud, no one can read it, “including Google.” However, this part is not available yet, so don’t get too excited. This is just a preview of what Google hopes to push out in 2024.

Google Maps recently underwent a metamorphism. The company has moved on important updates and notable changes in the past few months, including some additional AI improvements met with a little anger. It also increased the social networking part of the map app by enabling features like emojis for Google Maps list you share with friends.

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