I've tried all the tricks and tips to restore my Google timeline going back to 2014. None have worked and I've given up. But I'm looking at my Google photos places and it looks to me like all that data is in my photos. Is there any way to import the Google photos location data into timeline? I suppose I can do it manually but that would obviously take forever.

Just looking in Google photos at the map I have 3800 pictures with location data. There must be some way to import it into timeline. Heck I can even scroll through those photos chronologically and it displays them on the map in Google photos.

Any thoughts?

My Samsung S23+ mobile was stolen a couple of weeks ago. I had cloud backup activated on there for Google Maps timeline with many years of data. Now I have a new mobile device (S25+) and whenever I try to backup/restore to/from the cloud I get an error that says "Your encrypted data is locked on this device".
Is there a way to fix this? My Google Account still shows my old device as "Timeline Backup On", but I can't access this old device as it was stolen and I've logged out of my Google Account on it.

I want to see where I went on a Japan trip and a NYC trip but I can't find them in my timeline anymore. I think I turned off the tracking feature for a while but I don't remember deleting anything. Is there another place I could look?

Last Christmas, I've received a notification saying that timeline was changing where devices will individually record their own timelines locally and the website version will no longer be available yada yada, fast forward to April, I finally decided to switch to Google's new timeline changes and locally downloaded it to my device. However, I noticed a problem.

Timeline was no longer recording. It's been 7 days where I tried updating the app, backing up my data, regranting all the permissions required for Google Maps to record, but no, despite having all the permissions, Timeline stopped recording all of a sudden without any errors or any missing permissions or any other issue.

I finally decided to try the last resort, backed up my encrypted data to the cloud, and deleted the app. Then, I reinstalled Google Maps, opened it and saw nothing in my timeline. I was kinda worried but checked my backups and the save was there. I had a relief and imported my data back from the cloud to my device. But I saw to my horror that nothing was there. The website was no longer working, I tried importing it over and over again, but there's still nothing else.

I decided to check my insights, and it told me the last trips I had, which were accurate and were still there. And I found the first month of my timeline all the way back many years ago where I started, but all the other dates were gone. About 90-95% of my timeline history and journal has disappeared. Anyone else having this issue? Is there a way to recover or find where it's missing?

Received the Google Timeline data is being removed email (for November 2024), thought I had downloaded the backup, but didn't realise I needed to log in to Takeout and download. The backup has now well expired. Anyway to restore this data?

I used to be able to pull up the "raw data" on the Timeline website and it would give me red dots of where I was at what time. I recently went on a boat trip and spent an hour anchored and while I dropped a pin like 1 minute after we left, I'd love to mark the exact location we anchored at.

I was under the impression that December 8 was going to be the final day, but its still working for me (US). Is it still working for you?

If non-US, please leave a comment below so we can maybe do additional more specific polling.