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Google Maps is killing Timeline for Web

Google Maps' Timeline feature is killing web access and switching to a more private, on-device approach in the coming months.

Google Maps is sunsetting web access for its Timeline feature that allows users to view their location history. To keep users’ sensitive location data more private and secure, Google Maps will sunset web access for its Timeline feature in the coming months. This would make Google Maps’ Timeline data unique to each connected phone — as the migration would deactivate the universal sync mechanism.

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