You can track someone on Google Maps as long as the person you want to track has opted into sharing their location.

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You can disable Google Maps' Timeline history of the places you've visited. You can also disable Maps from tracking you ...

Every month, Google sends me a report about where I've been, and I have to say that I'm not a fan. In fact, the idea that Google is following me around, via Maps, disturbs me. That's not the only ...

With Android 16, Google introduced the Live Updates feature. This is aimed at making it easier to track real-time notifications from various apps like food delivery, flight trackers, and others. This ...

The search giant has reportedly started enabling the ability to send traffic reports in Google Maps on smaller screens ...

Thanks to my extremely poor sense of direction, Google Maps is an essential travel app for me — for both short trips to different parts of the city, as well as longer routes that I have no chance of ...

Google Maps looks set to make it even simpler to keep track of how far you are from home. At least one user has spotted that the app now shows your estimated travel time directly in the Home chip ...

Whether you're using the speedometer in your car or using the speed display in Google Maps, you might wonder which is more ...