Showing posts with label Location History. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Location History. Show all posts

Sunday, June 21, 2015

ICYMI: Battery Life, Embed Video, Google Tracking, iPhone Location Services

In Case You Missed It: One Cool Tip.com
This has been a popular week with some interesting tips.

Learn some cool tips on extending and boosting your smart phone battery life between charges, how to embed a YouTube video in a blog post or website, learn how to access your Google map location history and finally, learn how to ensure your iPhone is using location services for the correct apps.

In Case You Missed It, here's a recap of recent cool tips:

Extend Your Smart Phone Battery Life
Learn how to make your smart phone battery last longer between charges.

Embed a YouTube Video
Learn how you can embed a YouTube video in a blog post or website

Google Knows Where You've Been
Learn how to access your Google maps location history.  Where have you been?  Google knows.

My iPhone Has Lost Me
Some apps need to know where you are to provide their service.  learn how to ensure your iPhone settings are correct to let them do that.

Enjoy!

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Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Google Knows Where You've Been.

Google Location History
Google knows where you've been.

Why?  You allowed it.

Maybe you didn't know you allowed it.

But you did.

It's not a bad thing.  It's part of the price you are paying for accessing the free services of Google on your mobile phone.  By letting Google know where you are, apps like Google Maps, and Waze can help you find your way.

You didn't think it was all free did you?

But you may be surprised to see that Google keeps a history of where you've been.  You may not remember where you went last Sunday.  But Google knows.

Google Location History CalendarYou can see your location history by visiting https://maps.google.com/locationhistory/

By clicking the calendar on the Location History page, you can go back and see where you traveled on a given day.

It's OK to be freaked out.  Everyone is at first.  And then we all start clicking around on dates to verify we really went where the map shows.

Your location history is not just known by Google. All, Most, Many mobile apps and websites keep track of your location history.  Google is more open about it and shows you your history.  Yay for openness!

Just below the Location History calendar there is a link to delete a single day or all of your location history.  Use it if you must.

In a  future Cool Tip, I'll show you how you can disable this Google feature on your iOS or Android phone.  But it will put a dent in your use of mobile apps.

Enjoy!

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