In fact, turning off your Location History only stops Google from creating a timeline of your location that you can view. When you turn off Location History for your Google Account, it's off for all devices associated with that Google Account.' The AP's investigation found that's not true. The Google support page for managing and deleting your Location History says that once you turn it off, 'the places you go are no longer stored. The problem affects anyone with an Android phone and iPhone users running Google Maps on their devices, according to the AP report, which researchers at Princeton University verified. There's a way to stop it-but it takes some digging.
According to an AP investigation published Monday, even if you disable Location History, the search giant still tracks you every time you open Google Maps, get certain automatic weather updates, or search for things in your browser. If, like most people, you thought Google stopped tracking your location once you turned off Location History in your account settings, you were wrong.
