Google Maps: How to delete your travel history on Android and iPhone

Google Maps keeps track of all your trips, even when the app is not in use. For those who would like not to keep a history of the routes traveled, or delete all or part of what is already kept in the database, it's easy to do. We show you how. 

If it is not inconvenient for most users to have access to the history of their routes, everyone does not necessarily want to be traced to the nearest meter. Google is reassuring by saying that only you can consult it. But if for some reason you want delete your trip history, here's how to do it. The process is the same on smartphones Android that on iPhone et iPad.

Google Maps: clear your route history

First of all, specify that Google Maps keeps your history of journeys in two ways: in the section "Your journeys" on the one hand where you will find the routes of your routes and "History Maps" on the other hand which concerns only the places you searched for in the app.

Delete your ride data

Remove a single location from within a set of routes:

1. Launch Google Maps
2. Tap the three horizontal lines in the upper left corner ☰ then on the option Your Journeys
3. Choose a milestone from the history you want to delete from the list of routes
4. Touch the icon Remove in the upper right corner

Delete day trips:

1. Dance Google Maps
2. Press ☰ then Your Journeys
3. Tap the calendar icon? top right
4. Choose the day from which you would like to remove the trip data
5. Touch on the three vertical lines at the top right then on Delete day

These steps described above are suitable if you want to be able to access your route history in Google Maps while deleting some of the retained data if necessary. But the most radical, you can delete all history or simply disable tracking of your movements.

Delete all trip history

1. Launch Google Maps
2. Press ☰ > Your Journeys > ⋮ (upper right corner) > History Settings
3. Select Delete location history

Turn off history in Google Maps

To prevent Google Maps from keeping your route history:

1. Open Google Maps
2. Press ☰ > Your Trips > ⋮ > History Settings 
3. Tap Location update on and toggle the switch on the next screen to the left

Delete search history

All places entered in the search bar or route requested in Google Maps are kept, whether they have actually been traveled or not. It is also a way to access the history of your routes. Unfortunately, it is not possible to delete them all at once. This is done entry by entry.

1. Open Google Maps
2. Press ☰ > Settings > Google Maps History
3. Tap the cross next to each entry to delete it from the history

That's it that's all. You are now sure that all the routes you travel have been deleted from the Google Maps history, which protects you from being tracked by any third party in case they have access to your Google account.

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