Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Dudley Brooks Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android Subject: Re: Where is Google Maps Timeline stored on Android? (Android 14 UI 6.1 on Samsung A54) Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2024 12:00:40 -0700 Organization: Run For Your Life! ... it's a dance company Lines: 43 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: dbrooks@runforyourlife.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2024 21:00:43 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="53501f6279d853fd01a98fe333e7d435"; logging-data="3174601"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+DMcPNX3jq4+RvVEmNkS6FTht8BYbcq3o=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.13; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.9.1 Cancel-Lock: sha1:QxJhhT6JDwV4SAW9E0fhqn3S4+M= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 3160 On 6/13/24 4:34 PM, Enrico Papaloma wrote: > On 6/13/2024 5:03 PM, Dudley Brooks wrote: > >> I did the required 7 taps on Build Number and successfully turned on >> Developer Mode > > The Developer options in Android has always been like editing the registry > in Windows, where if you're going to turn it on, you're supposed to know > how to do that and what to do with all the options that it make available. Yep. >> However ... Developer Options does NOT include Firebase App Indexing! > > I saw "Settings > Google services > Firebase App Indexing" in Android 13 > only after I turned on "Developer options", so I assume you'd see the same. Nope. An "improvement" between 13 and 14, I guess. >>> Firebase App Indexing saves a ton of personal data on your phone. >>> https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/231849/stop-gms-firebase-indexing-from-collecting-all-of-the-personal-data > > I agree with you that there's not a lot on the Internet about Firebase App > Indexing on Android once you turn on the Developer options. You're just > supposed to know all about it, I guess, simply because it exists. :( Yep. > https://support.google.com/android/thread/18328571/why-is-there-a-firebase-app-indexing-option-under-accounts-with-several-google-apps-listed > https://xdaforums.com/t/privacy-anyone-know-how-to-clear-google-map-search-results-in-the-android-firebase.4369547/ > https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/gdg-oslo-hidden-android-features/75463195#23 The last one sounds interesting. I'll check it out ... later ... and see if it applies to the *current* Android version! ;^) Thanks! -- Dudley Brooks, Artistic Director Run For Your Life! ... it's a dance company! San Francisco