Google Maps saves your past travel data to a personal Timeline. The Timeline has been undergoing some recent changes, as Google transitions to on-device storage. Within the past day, a growing ...

Launch Google Maps on your phone, tap your profile icon at the top, and then select Timeline. Tap the cloud icon. From the "Your backups" section, select a device, tap More, and then select Import.

Google deleted the Timeline data for many of its Maps users. If you had a backup enabled, you should be able to restore that data, but otherwise, it's likely lost forever.

In Google Maps for Android or iOS, tap your account picture (top right), then Your Timeline. You get the same data whichever device you’re using, but it’s presented in a slightly different way.

Google’s Timeline is shutting down. So, I spent a weekend self-hosting my own version with OwnTracks, MQTT, and a Synology NAS.

As spotted by 9to5Google, some users have noticed that the Timeline menu in the Google Maps app now says, “No visits for this day.” Apparently, this message appears every day they check, ...

Google admits that it accidentally deleted Google Maps Timeline data for some users, and that those who hadn’t turned on cloud backups are out of luck. The data is gone forever in certain cases.