How to Hide a Place from Google Location History

You can manually delete places from your history or turn off your phone’s GPS or the Location History feature to prevent Google from keeping track of where you go. Read on to learn all the methods in detail below. You can quickly delete a place from Google location history from your account dashboard. The same can be done on any mobile phone or desktop, as shown below:

  1. Head to the My Activity Page of your Google Account. 2. Log in to your Google account if not already. 3. On the activity control page, click on Manage History.

4. You will see all the places you have been to and the date. Select the date from which you want to delete a place (using the blue bars at the top left).

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  1. Click on Delete Day to confirm.
  2. Open the Google Maps app on your phone.
  3. Click your profile icon in the top right corner.
  4. Select Your Timeline.
  5. Next, click the three-dot for the place you visited and tap Remove.
  6. Swipe down again to expand the quick settings panel.
  7. Here, look for the Location or GPS toggle.
  8. Tap it to turn off your GPS location. OR
  9. Scroll down and click on Location.
  10. Turn off the toggle to turn off location tracking. Note that turning off your phone’s location will affect other features like GPS navigation and Find My Phone.

On Phone

  1. Open the Google Maps app on your phone.
  2. Click your profile icon in the top right corner.
  3. Here, click Location History is on, select the Google account, and hit Turn Off.

On Web

  1. Head to the My Activity Page of your Google Account on your browser.

  2. Click on Location History.

  3. Scroll down and hit Turn Off.

What Happens When You Turn Off Google Location History?

Here’s what happens when you turn off Google Location History:

Your location won’t be reported from devices you have your account logged into. Google will not save any new location information in your history.Previous activity is not deleted from your location history. Instead, you’ll have to do it manually.It does not affect other location services on your device, like Google Location Services and Find My Device.Your location may still be saved in your Google Account when using other Google sites, apps, and services via Web and App Activity.

Wrapping Up

This is how you can hide or delete a place from your Location History and prevent Google from recording your location for certain places. While there’s no direct toggle for the latter, you can use workarounds like temporarily disabling Location History and GPS. Feel free to reach out if you still have any doubts or queries.

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