Обзор Did your Google Maps Timeline history just disappear? You’re far from alone

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• 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 number of Maps users have noticed their Timeline is no longer accessible.

The past few months have introduced a big change to the way we keep track of where we’ve been when using the Timeline feature of Google Maps. After years of tying that information to your account in an easily accessible manner, last year Google started pushing Maps users to transition to on-device Timeline, where their movement data is only for that specific phone. As the deadline approached, users were prompted to make decisions about keeping their existing history, which was anxiety-inducing enough by itself — who wants to risk losing years of Timeline data? Now those fears are once again resurfacing, as a number of Maps users see their Timelines vanish.

This seems to be a recent trend, with reports on Reddit from users like ashtreylil and hardrivethrutown popping up within the past 24 hours to the r/GoogleMaps sub, as spotted by 9to5Google. Plenty of commenters chime in to those posts to share similar stories of their own.