> Also presumably better privacy than Google Maps.
Yeah you might say that.
My Android-owning Irish mate got hammered one night. Had no idea where he’d been.
We launched Google Maps and it had a GPS track of his entire night. Like a dotted map with every step he’d taken.
iPhone does this too, though the location data doesn’t leave your phone unless you share it with an app that does that.
Google intends to do the same by end of this year:
https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/5/24172204/google-maps-delet...
On iPhone I only see Signifcant Locations; on my phone I only see a list of 3 places (despite 400 records). Compared to Google Timeline it’s much more curtailed function.
Yeah, it's a feature enabled by default outside of the EU (in the EU it asks you if you want to enable it). Makes for some fun stats/recaps, and is useful for tracing back steps (wait, where was that awesome store/restaurant/park/whatever we went to while on a trip to XYZ?) at the expense of Google knowing a lot about you.