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Re: Location History is moving to on-phone timeline

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In comp.mobile.android, on 17 Nov 2024 18:49:11 GMT, Frank Slootweg
<this@ddress.is.invalid> wrote:

>Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> wrote:
>> micky wrote:
>> 
>> > Location History is now called Timeline, and you now have new choices
>> > for your data.
>> > 
>> >      To continue using Timeline, you must have an up-to-date version of
>> > the Google Maps app. Otherwise, you may lose data and access to your
>> > Timeline on Google Maps..
>> 
>> Agree they're handling this badly ... send out warning we're going to 
>> delete your data, then make it clear as mud how not to do that.
>
>  FWIW, I (in The Netherlands) haven't received any such emails and

In their defense, they say they're rolling it out gradually. my problem
is it's coming to me on Dec. 1 and I don't know if I've done what they
want or not.   

I don't have a Timeline option on my phone, under Maps settings, but
their instructions say to wait for an email or notifiction (or some 3rd
thing), do what it ssys, tap Done, and I'll be done. but I've gotten no
email or notification or that 3rd thing.   Well I do get Timeline emails
with, as a I said, every month the same warning.  I tried again and it
took me to a webpage that said "If you'd like to keep your saved visits,
you need to update your settings by Dec 1, 2024. To see your options, go
to Timeline in the Google Maps app on your preferred smartphone. "

So I went again to the settings and this time for the first time after
severa other times, I found Your Timeline.   I hope the word Your didn't
cause me not to see the second word.  But that's the kind of stupid
thing I might have done.   Now it asks me if I want to keep until I
delete or autodelete after 3, 18, or 36 months. Does it actually make an
entry if you go almost every day to the same 3 places?   My current
download size is less than MB, and when I looked a couple days ago, it
had my trip last January.  Then I tapped Save and Continue and I got an
error 500, but 10 minutes later, it worked. 

Aha, it has a slash through many days of the month, days I presume I
didn't turn my phone on, but back in January, when I was in Guatemala
for 3 weeks, it has slashes through the first two weeks and the week
before that when I was in Florida.   The first two weeks of the 3 would
have been a lot more intersting, but I wasn't in Guatemala City most of
those days.  But I did have cellular service almost everywhere else in
the country, and in one case, I went back to some place an hour from
Guat. City and in the last week it recorded that, but not the first time
I was there.   I don't think I even went into Settings on the day or
week the timeline started working. 

Looking prior to January, I have nothuing going back years.  I think it
said something about 2024, so I guess it only started (for me?) not on
Jan 1, but on Jan 21st, and had nothing to do with Guatemala. 

>still get my 'Frank, here's your new Timeline update' emails (with
>subject "Frank, your <month> update", etc.. Where "etc." means the
>popups on you phone to explore your timeline, visited places, etc..
>
>  BTW, I'm confused about the wording of:
>
>> >      To continue using Timeline, you must have an up-to-date version of
>> > the Google Maps app. Otherwise, you may lose data and access to your
>> > Timeline on Google Maps..
>
>  "your Timeline on Google Maps"!? My Timeline isn't 'on' Google Maps.

I think that's the point. They are moving the data storage from their
servers to your phone.  If you do "something", they will copy the data
from their server to your phone. If you don't do it, you won't be able
to see it on their sarvers, using the web, like  you can now, and it
won't have been copied either.   So it will be gone. 

>  I can access Timeline *from* the Google Maps app by going to 'Manage
>your Google Account', but that doesn't make it *on* Google Maps, it's
>part of my Google services, which I *can* - but do not have to - access
>from my Google *Account*, which I *can* - but do not have to - access
>from the Google Maps app.
>
>  Same with the Timeline website, that's
><https://timeline.google.com/maps/timeline>

Maybe the timeline website won't exist anymore. Of course they could
have said that to make things a bit more clear. 

>*not*
><https://www.google.com/maps>
>
>  So maybe the fuss is only if you use "your Timeline on Google Maps",
>whatever that may mean.

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  Re: Location History is moving to on-phone timeline Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2024-11-17 09:57 +0000
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    Re: Location History is moving to on-phone timeline Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2024-11-19 22:07 +0000
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        Re: Location History is moving to on-phone timeline Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2024-11-20 11:08 +0000
          Re: Location History is moving to on-phone timeline Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2024-11-20 11:30 +0000
            Re: Location History is moving to on-phone timeline Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2024-11-20 11:37 +0000
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          Re: Location History is moving to on-phone timeline micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2024-11-20 11:18 -0500
      Re: Location History is moving to on-phone timeline Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2024-11-20 11:05 +0000
        Re: Location History is moving to on-phone timeline Anssi Saari <anssi.saari@usenet.mail.kapsi.fi> - 2024-11-20 13:54 +0200
          Re: Location History is moving to on-phone timeline Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2024-11-20 12:28 +0000
            Re: Location History is moving to on-phone timeline Anssi Saari <anssi.saari@usenet.mail.kapsi.fi> - 2024-11-21 00:37 +0200
          Re: Location History is moving to on-phone timeline Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2024-11-20 14:26 +0000
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