How do I delete my answers to questions on Google Maps?

Google’s My Activity can make services more useful for you, like helping you rediscover the things you’ve searched for, read, and watched. You can see and manage your activity by using the controls on your My Activity page.

Starting today, we’re rolling out a feature so you can use My Activity to see that you’ve answered questions about a place on Google Maps. While you won’t be able to see your answer, you can better manage your privacy settings by deleting your answers activity.

You must enable Web & App activity in My Activity to answer questions about places on Google Maps. When you visit My Activity**,** you’ll be able to see answers you shared and control what is saved. You can delete all activity for the day, or enable 3, 18, or 36 month deletions.

If you delete answers to questions during any time frame, your answer will be deleted from Google Maps, and as a result, your Local Guides points will be removed for those contributions.

To delete your answers to questions on Google Maps

  1. Visit My Activity
  2. Find the answer session you want to delete
  3. Click More
  4. Click Delete

For more information on how to delete your activity, check out this Help Center article. Please note: the deletion and loss of points may not be instant.

FAQs

Are any of my other contributions to Google Maps impacted?

No.

Are the answers I contributed no longer used anywhere else in Google Maps?

Any responses may still be used to help show if places are wheelchair-accessible, or other attributes like if a place is good for groups, but there will be no record that the answer came from you.

If I delete my answers, will I be prompted to answer the same questions I already answered?

Yes. There will be no record that the answer came from you if you delete your history.

What if I have my Timeline history off already?

Your Timeline history is different from Web & App activity. If you have already paused Web & App activity, you are not asked to answer questions on Google Maps.

If you clear your entire Web & App activity, you will lose all answers. None of these interact with Timeline history. If it’s off, you won’t get prompted as often for questions, but if you review or save a place, you may be asked questions and can answer them, later managing that activity in My Activity.

If I delete my activity by accident, is there any way to bring it back?

No.

How can I manage my settings?

You can manage your settings by visiting My Activity.

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@AriMar I didn’t know about this option before. Thank you for the update.

But I just checked and found that there no record for my answered questions. I can see what I have searched for, directions, etc. but no questions. What might be causing this?

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@SaifIS This is rolling out now; with the post to reflect that. We’ll update the post once it’s been rolled out to everyone, so stay tuned!

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@TraciC I see. Thank you for the update. This will be really a handy if we want to delete answers quickly.

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@AriMar This is a nice and useful feature. Thank you for sharing this post with us.

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Thank you for the update @AriMar

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That’s great @AriMar thank you for this information, a feature I know not!

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Thank you very much dear Arimar’s on this wonderful update, I hope you progress and work more than amendments to allow local guide to be more accurate, and we are our local customer service always stressing the information correctly before they credited to we credibility as a guide to Google Maps, and I wish you all success and progress. With your greetings of Jordan from Ahmad Abukharmh

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@AriMar

@TraciC

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I would like to draw your attention to the fact that deleting important comments that indicate and indicate somewhere may adversely affect the charts. With all my love to you

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Thank you for sharing such a great information.

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Good day’ @AriMar

Thank you so much’

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great explanation

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Nice update. Thanks @AriMar for sharing. I saw ‘my activity’ feature in my account a long time ago though I was not aware of this. Thank you for rolling out this feature, indeed very helpful.

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This update is questionable. I regularly use “delete all” in MyActivity and just recently did. Because of this new feature, I lost more than 3000 Local Guide points. Deleting items in MyActivity did never have any effect on points until now. Communication about this change could have been better, I likely won’t contribute any “answers” going forward.

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@AriMar

Points decreasing is not fare.

Our selfless Service to the Community and for Google.

Once honored cannot be taken back.

This is like take back the Medals from winners.

Ramamoorthy K.

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Hi @AriMar !
I think this is not a good feature and it is not fare the way you implemented it.

I lost more than 2000 points and my Data Seeker Master Badge had returned to zero, because of this implementation and the fact that I had a setup of 3 months deletion without knowing about that.

It is not a good aproach to implement something that is going to delete people’s things without even advicing them.

Apart from that, I think it is not a good solution that you force me to mantain all my devices activity for ever, for not loosing my anwers and my points.

I think you must review this solution as it is causing a lot of problems. I opened an idea in the ideas board requesting this change.

My Activity log deletion mustn’t delete user data

Regards

Cecilia

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@AriMar Thanks alot for your valuable update sharing with us!!

Best Regards

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Thank you for sharing the updates with us @AriMar

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@AriMar good tips! thanks a lot!!!

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