Published on: 2025-05-08 03:20:44
Earlier this year, The Iconfactory launched a new social feeds app called Tapestry. The app pulls together Bluesky, Mastodon, and other feeds into a unified timeline. And Tapestry’s latest addition, Crosstalk, solves an especially annoying quirk of our fractured social app landscape: duplicate posts. Crosstalk removes duplicate posts from your Tapestry timeline across Bluesky, Mastodon, more Tapestry version 1.1 just arrived on the App Store for iPhone and iPad. The update is packed with a bu
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-02 01:32:31
ZDNET Those of you who use the Google Maps Timeline to keep track of past trips and directions may notice that your data has mysteriously vanished. Well, not so mysteriously. The fault lies with Google, and you're apparently out of luck unless you have a backup. "We briefly experienced a technical issue that caused the deletion of Timeline data for some people," Google revealed in a statement shared with ZDNET. "Nearly everyone with encrypted Timeline backups will be able to restore their data
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-02 00:46:00
Google has confirmed it inadvertently erased some Google Maps Timeline data belonging to a number of people. The company told CNET the incident resulted from a temporary technical issue but did not elaborate on the specifics. The issue has since been resolved and new visits should now appear in user Timelines. "We briefly experienced a technical issue that caused the deletion of Timeline data for some people," a Google spokesperson said in a statement. "Nearly everyone with encrypted Timeline b
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-02 06:56:13
The Google Maps Timeline has long been a useful though slightly uncomfortable feature that maintains a complete record of everywhere your phone goes (and probably you with it). Google recently changed the way it stored timeline data to improve privacy, but the company now confirms that a "technical issue" resulted in many users losing their timeline history altogether, and there might not be any way to recover it. Timeline, previously known as Location History, is very useful if you need to fig
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-02 14:04:05
Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR Google admitted it had a Maps timeline-erasing bug, but there’s a way to get it back. These are the steps you should follow to restore your deleted timeline (with one major caveat). And there are measures you can take to always make sure your timeline is backed up. Earlier this month, Google made one extra blunder on top of an already-annoying situation with Maps timeline. After hindering timelines (for privacy reasons, I should add) by tying them to
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-03 03:44:01
After weeks of some Google Maps users reporting that their Timelines had been wiped of all the places they’ve visited, as spotted by 9to5Google earlier this month, Google has confirmed that some users’ data was deleted and is, in some cases, unrecoverable. In a statement to The Verge , Google spokesperson Genevieve Park said, “We briefly experienced a technical issue that caused the deletion of Timeline data for some people.” Only users who had backups turned on will be able to restore their Tim
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-03 02:01:27
is a weekend editor who covers the latest in tech and entertainment. He has written news, reviews, and more as a tech journalist since 2020. Google Maps users have recently been complaining on places like Reddit that their Timeline data — the app’s historical record of where they’ve been — had disappeared. Now, Google has confirmed that it accidentally deleted the data and that anyone who wasn’t using Google’s cloud backups is out of luck. Google spokesperson Genevieve Park provided this state
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-02 22:15:41
Redditor sweepernosweeping reported that Google sent them an email confirming that it accidentally deleted Timeline data for some people: Hi <real name>, We briefly experienced a technical issue that caused the deletion of Timeline data for some people. We’re reaching out as your account may have been impacted. If you have encrypted backups enabled, you may be able to restore your data. Make sure that you have the latest version of Google Maps, then go to your Timeline. Tap the cloud icon ( )
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-02 21:52:41
Redditor sweepernosweeping reported that Google sent them an email confirming that it accidentally deleted Timeline data for some people: Hi <real name>, We briefly experienced a technical issue that caused the deletion of Timeline data for some people. We’re reaching out as your account may have been impacted. If you have encrypted backups enabled, you may be able to restore your data. Make sure that you have the latest version of Google Maps, then go to your Timeline. Tap the cloud icon ( )
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-26 07:33:26
Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google Maps saves your past travel data to a personal Timeline. The Timeline has been undergoing some recent changes, as Google transitions to on-device storage. Within the past day, a growing number of Maps users have noticed their Timeline is no longer accessible. The past few months have introduced a big change to the way we keep track of where we’ve been when using the Timeline feature of Google Maps. After years of tying that information to your
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