What Google loves our data a lot is no secret (You must see cases such as the great technology “sees” when we take a photo or how it has stored the location data over the years, so much so that it has allowed a couple to discover When they coincided in space and time when they were unknown.
Yes, Google collects many personal data, but the EU was serious and after a long battle of fines and disputes, it has made certain changes. Without going further, he announced that he would stop saving Google Maps chronology data, that is to say that he would no longer accumulate data from the location of its users and users in Their cloud unlimited. Instead, will cherish the history of our locations at home and only for a few months.
How to know where you were with Google Photos
This has a consequence: that the experience of the aforementioned couple could no longer be carried out as long as It is no longer possible to check in which places we were with Google Maps Over the years. That panic does not happen because it is always possible to satisfy our curiosity with Google applications.
More specifically and the way in which the Spaniard is echoing, it is Google Photos, which for the moment still maintains the thermal card of our clouds of clouds, by geolocating ourselves through the images that we have taken and that we stored in Our account. It is not as exhaustive as Google Maps was so precise and of course it depends on taking photos in all our locations, but it will help us Give us an approach to where we were.
For this trick to work, it is an essential requirement that we have activated 'Save location“In the application of the camera, something that can be saved”Parameters'>'Camera'>'Camera settings'. Then we just have to go to the Google Pictures app and enter the different photos that we want to know the location.
First image: camera settings. Two and three images: how to see the locations where we were
Thanks to the configuration of the backup location, it is possible that the information section of a photograph, the Exif, Store mobile GPS contact details At the time, he was taken.
With the open photo, we will slide up to see the location, among other details. A card can also be seen and if we touch it, we can see where we have been and what photos we have taken in each location and when.
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