How to Find Your Location History on iPhone and iPad?

In this guide, we have discussed how to find your location history on your iPhone and iPad. If you use any Apple device, such as an iPhone or iPad, your real-time location is tracked by default. Wherever you move around in a day or a week, the device keeps track of the places you navigated through or visited.

While Apple collects and knows your location data and history, you can always opt out of that. This means you can stop sharing your location. However, some apps, like food delivery or cab booking, will require you to enable location tracking.

Even if you use Google Maps on an iPhone or iPad, Google will record your movements. You can access your travel and navigation details for a timeline in the Google Maps timeline. Interestingly, your movements will be monitored even if you do not use Google Maps due to background location tracking.

1. How to Find Your Location History on iPhone and iPad?

You can learn your current and past location details on the iPhone or iPad by visiting the Privacy settings of iOS. Here are the detailed steps for that.

1. Go to Settings > Privacy & Security > Location Services.
2. Under that, tap on System Services.
   
3. Navigate to Significant Locations and tap on it.
4. Authenticate using Touch ID or Face ID, depending on your iPhone model.

Significant Locations uses smart AI algorithms to learn your movements and places you visited to suggest places of interest near the places.

If you want to stop your location tracking, tap the switch beside Significant Locations to disable it. You can even tap on Clear History under the Significant Locations tab. This will remove all your location history recorded until now.

It is worth noting that Apple respects user privacy and doesn’t share too many details of users’ movements. Google, on the other hand, is quite lenient in sharing the location details of the user.

2. How to Find Your Location History on Google Maps?

Most Apple users prefer using Google Maps to navigate routes and find directions to their destinations. You can visit the Google Maps timeline to learn more about your location history, including where you have been in the recent past.

1. Grab your iPhone or even a computer.
2. On the browser, go to Google Maps Timeline.
3. You will see a map of the world. The red dots on it signify the places that you have visited in your country or around the world.
4. Click on those red dots to know in detail which place you have been in a particular region.

2.1 Managing Location History 

To manage your location’s tracking, you must follow the steps mentioned below.

1. Click on Manage Location History at the bottom of the screen.
   
2. You will be redirected ot the Google Account settings page.
3. Click on the option Turn Off beside Location History.
   

2.2 Control Location Tracking from iOS/iPad OS Settings

If you use Google Maps on your iPhone, you can manage the location tracking from the iOS or iPad OS settings. This will automatically stop recording location history.

1. Open the Settings app > go to  Privacy & Security
2.  Tap on Location Services > navigate to Google Maps and tap on it.
   
3. Under the Allow Location Access tab, you will see several options.
4. You can set it to While Using the App or Never if you do not want to be tracked at all.
   

Wrapping Up

That’s how you can find your location history on your iPhone or iPad. While some users may not need this feature, having these details will help you find relevant information for your navigation and travel. If you are not comfortable being tracked every time, you can also opt-out from any platform.