Google Maps: How to Delete All History on Android

Google Maps saves the history of all the places you have visited. A gold mine to track all your movements, regardless of the mode of transport used. Sometimes it can be very handy, for example to find out how many kilometers you have walked in the last week. But there are also cases where this information needs to be deleted. Fortunately, it's pretty straightforward, as you'll see in this quick tutorial. 

Google apps have an unfortunate tendency to log everything you do with them. You just have to go to the settings of your Google account to realize the bewildering amount of data that the company keeps. So follow this quick tutorial to remove everything in a jiffy!

Android: how to delete Google Maps history

Delete places and routes

To delete only a few places and routes visited in Google Maps:

1. Open Google Maps
2. touch ☰> Your Trips
3. Choose a history entry to delete
4. touch Remove

Delete a day

To delete a day in Google Maps:

1. Open Google Maps
2. touch ☰> Your Trips
3. Touch? (top right) then select the day to delete
4. touch ⋮> Delete the day

Delete all history

To completely delete Google Maps history:

1. Open Google Maps
2. touch ☰> Your Trips
3. touch ⋮> Settings
4. Go to Location settings and touch Delete location history

If you wish, you can also deactivate the location history of Google Maps to make sure you never get tracked again. To deactivate this history it is also very simple:

1. Open Google Maps
2. touch ☰> Your Trips
3. touch ⋮> Settings
4. Deactivate Position History et Position update

Do you find the location history in Google Maps useful? In what situations do you use it? Share your experience in the comments of this tutorial!