Google Maps is fully committed to continue updating and improving the service it offers to users. In addition to the recent change in terms of storing location history, tools have also been improved so that anyone can easily delete photos and history linked to certain days.
This is another improvement from Google aimed at enhancing the quality of user control over the information that Google records from their activity. In a time where privacy is essential for digital development, this update will give users even more control over the information that remains
Deleting the history in one fell swoop
As highlighted by Google in its corporate blog, Google Maps offers users the ability to now manage their history and images associated with certain locations more easily. In fact, you can even set it up so that, after a certain time, the location history will delete your trips as time passes. This way, your older trips that you prefer to delete will automatically disappear.
Today it is crucial that digital services give users the option to erase their traces, since it is about allowing those who wish to keep their past private and have the freedom to decide whether they prefer to keep the routes and trips made in the past, or if they choose to delete those traces.
Closing 2023 as a new Maps
With 2023 coming to an end, just a few days away from the end of the year, Google Maps is showing a series of updates that undoubtedly represents one of the most radical changes within the application in the last decade. In addition to improving its privacy services by enhancing control of information for users, services such as routes focused on electric cars have also been enhanced, a type of vehicle that is increasingly present in the current fleet.
On the other hand, its design has also changed in a quite noticeable way, opting for a colder, more minimalist and institutional image. The warm tones have been muted, the greenish tones have been blued, and the blues have been lightened in a map that, for example, has eliminated the orange color of the roads to replace it with gray, a color palette that certain Maps developers in the past don’t like as much.
