View Location History On Android: It’s good when an app manages to tell you where you and what are the places you can visit nearby or eat from. With the help of location history, it’s easier to set up navigation and look if you’ll be stuck in traffic on your way to work or if there’s a roadblock on your usual route.
Also, Google can let you see the locations you’ve gone to in the past. The places you frequently visit and look where you were exactly on a specific day in the past.
How to View Location History on Android
You can use different methods to do this, including the Google app, Google Maps app, and browser app like Chrome. Let’s check out each one of them.
Using the Google App
Step 1:
Firstly, Open the Google app on your Android phone.
Step 2:
Click on the More button at the bottom right.
Step 3:
Press the down arrow next to your account name.
Step 4:
Click on Manage your Google Account. You will be taken to a new page which displays everything there needs to be seen on your Google account. By default, you will be on the Home tab.
Step 5:
Among the tabs choose Data & personalization.
Step 6:
Under Activity controls, click on Location History.
Step 7:
Press Manage Activity.
You will now be taken to the Google Maps app. The new page appears an interface where you can see your location history by sorting through day, place, cities, and world.
Step 8:
Find a particular activity:
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Day:
- Click on the arrow next to ‘Today’ at the top of the screen.
- Choose a date from a month or by swiping left/right to select a particular month.
- Activities for a day will now display at the bottom half of the screen.
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Places
- Click on the Places tab at the top.
- You will be shown a list of places you might have visited in and around you.
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Cities
- Click on the Cities tab.
- A list of cities that you visited in the past will appear down below.
- Tap on a specific city to view your location activities there.
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World
- Click on the World tab.
- You will see a list of countries to look at your location history and you can continue to view further choices like cities, places and time.
Using the Google Maps App
Step 1:
At first, Open the Google Maps app on your Android phone.
Step 2:
Click the hamburger menu at the top left.
Step 3:
Click Your Places. A list of all the places you’ve visited and wish to visit will be shown here.
Step 4:
Now choose the Visited tab (among all the taps at the top) b/w Reservations and Maps. You will be shown a list of you’ve visited starting from the most recent to older visited places.
Alternatively, you can also follow these steps to view your location history:
Step 1:
Same as above open the Google Maps app on your Android device.
Step 2:
Again click the hamburger menu at the top left.
Step 3:
Click on Your Timeline.
Step 4:
Find a particular activity:
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Day
- Click on the arrow next to ‘Today’ at the top of the screen.
- Choose a date from a month or by swiping left/right to select a particular month.
- Activities for a day will now be shown at the bottom half of the screen.
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Places
- Click on the Places tab at the top.
- A list of places appears you might have visited in and around you.
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Cities
- Click on the Cities tab.
- A list of cities that you visited in the past will appear.
- Tap on a specific city to view your location activities there.
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World
- Click on the World tab.
- You will be shown a list of countries to see your location history and you can continue to view further choices like cities, places and time.
Using a Browser App
Step 1:
Open your web browser.
Step 2:
Visit this page — https://myactivity.google.com and log in with your Google ID.
Step 3:
From here choose Activity Controls.
Step 4:
Navigate to the section having name Location History and click on Manage Activity.
Google Map’s web interface will open displaying you places that you visited recently as dots on the map. You can also select a particular day from the past month or two by using the activity graph section on the left. You can also manually choose a date by clicking on the year, month, and day you want to search for.
Conclusion:
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