Location history: the day's story, told by the map

What location history shows

Location history turns the live map into a timeline. For each child (and any adult who shares), you can scroll back through the day and see the places they stopped, how long they stayed, and the routes between them — each stop stamped with arrival and departure times. Yesterday's history and recent days are there too, so a pattern is never more than a couple of taps away.

The live map answers "where are they now?". History answers the quieter, more useful questions: Did the after-school plan actually happen? How long was the "quick stop" at the shop? Which route do they really take home?

The feature that replaces interrogation

Here's the scene history was built for: your child said they'd go straight home, and at 5:40 they're not home. Without history, the options are bad — worry, call repeatedly, or launch a where-were-you interrogation at the door. With history, you glance: they left school at 3:31, stopped at the library 3:48–5:25, and they're walking the usual route now. No drama, no twenty questions, and dinner conversation can be about the day instead of an alibi.

Parents tell us this cuts both ways, pleasantly: kids stop having to narrate their whereabouts ("I TOLD you I was at Maya's") because the boring facts are simply known, and conversations move on to things that matter. The map handles the logistics; you handle the parenting.

What you can do with it

• Verify the plan, skip the checking. One evening glance confirms the day went as agreed — no live-map vigil required.
• Spot route changes worth a conversation. A new regular stop, a longer way home, an unfamiliar address appearing twice a week — patterns surface gently, before they're problems.
• Reconstruct when it matters. A lost backpack, a "where did we park?", a genuinely worrying afternoon — the timeline is there when you need to retrace steps precisely.
• See geofence events in context. Every arrival and departure alert is logged in the timeline, so a missed notification is never lost information.

Accuracy, honestly

History inherits the live map's physics: street-level accuracy outdoors, building-level indoors, occasional drift in dense city blocks or underground. Stops are detected when the phone lingers in one area, so a two-minute pause at a crosswalk won't clutter the timeline, while a twenty-minute stop registers cleanly. If the phone goes offline — subway, dead battery — history resumes when it reconnects and shows the gap honestly rather than guessing.

Part of Premium

The live map is free; the timeline behind it is Premium. One subscription covers history for every member of your circle, alongside unlimited geofences and the rest of the toolkit.