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From: Dudley Brooks <dbrooks@runforyourlife.org>
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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
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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!


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Dudley Brooks, Artistic Director
Run For Your Life! ... it's a dance company!
San Francisco