If you are the type who always wants to know your girlfriend’s location, you might consider sharing your live location with her. That way, she will be open to sharing her location with you, which helps you to know where she is every time. However, you can leverage the location history feature on Google Maps to see places your girlfriend has been to in the past weeks.
Both your Android and iPhone are tracking devices. They have accurate data on the places you have been to these past weeks. It can span months and years, but you are always in control of the information. Initially, someone can pull up your location history on the web, but that has been moved exclusively to mobile. Hence, only someone who has access to your device can check your location history.
Before you can check your girlfriend’s location history, she probably has to be aware, unless, of course, you have her password. If you do, we will show you ways to read the data you will see when you check her location history. But before we proceed, it will make sense to discuss why you can check her location history.
Reasons for checking your girlfriend’s location history
There are a few reasons you might want to check her location history. Perhaps she is lying about the places she has been in the past weeks. You want to make sure she comes back from school or work when she says she does. You are suspecting that she might be seeing someone else. Of course, you should discuss these fears with her before checking her location history.
Suspicion of Cheating
In a relationship, suspicion of cheating is always right. Once your partner has a new person in their life, they start behaving strangely. It becomes necessary to satisfy your curiosity by checking their location history to make sure they have not been visiting unusual places.
Safety
When you like someone, you want them to be safe. One way of ensuring their safety is making sure they don’t visit places that expose them to danger. You can only find out where your girlfriend goes and the time she comes back home by checking her location history. Perhaps you guys stay in the same house, it will be easy to know when she comes back home.
Lying about places she visits
You probably don’t need to argue much with your girlfriend about her whereabouts if you have access to her location history. It will show you all the places she has been to, with their timestamps and routes.
How to view your girlfriend’s location history
Have you ever thought of logging in to your Google account on your girlfriend’s phone? Yes, if your account is logged in on her device, you can pull up her location history from your end. Of course, it will show up as yours, but you probably know the places you have been to and the places that she likely visited using the data.
Meanwhile, if you want to check her location history using her phone, a few things need to be enabled. Usually, they are turned on by default, but in case no data shows up when you try checking, follow this link to set it up.
- Launch the “Maps” App on her phone.
- Tap on the profile picture at the top right corner.
- Tap on Timeline.
- On the screen will be the places she visited that day.
- Tap on Today, and you can choose the dates you want to check where your boyfriend went to.
- On top of your screen, under Timeline, you can filter the search by selecting options like Days, Trips, Insight, Places, Cities, and others.
Of course, you can only use this method to see places your girlfriend has visited in the past few months. It doesn’t track his real-time location, but you can do that by sharing your location with her on Google Maps. Google Maps has a feature named Notifications that acts like Geofencing. You will know when she leaves or enters a particular place you marked on the map. That way, you don’t have to monitor her movement 24/7.
How to stop someone from viewing my location history
The best way is to ensure no one has access to your phone. In addition, do not log someone’s Google account on your device. They will see your location history when they visit the history tab. Alternatively, you can use incognito mode but that means no data will be recorded, and your location will stop updating, which makes location sharing useless.
You will stop getting personalized recommendations and data won’t be saved especially when you plan to go back to the place you should not consider turning to incognito mode.
Conclusion
Communication remains an integral part of any relationship. You should not be shy about discussing your fears, especially when you start having doubts. We won’t recommend secretly checking your girlfriend’s location history, but we are not ruling it out.