Google Maps has eliminated the chronology data of some users of this service, which will not be able to recover them unless they have a cloud backup with which to load them again.
A “technical problem” has resulted in the elimination of the chronology data of a part of its users, that is, the history of locations that allows you to remember the places where it has been and the routes that have been made.
This fact has been confirmed by the company itself this weekend, both through a statement sent to The Verge and in individual communications via ’email’ with affected users, as stated in forums such as Reddit.
In this statement, Google affirms that “almost all users with backups encrypted from chronology can restore their data”, something that, however, those who “do not have them activated,” will not be able to do them, since they will not be able to recover their data.
Chronology is a Google Maps feature that is offered deactivated by default. Those who activate it can choose to save an encrypted backup (protected with end -to -end encrypted) from their device on their Google account.
But also on its own device, a change that Google introduced last year, although this leaves without access to this feature from the web and does not act the copy in the cloud.