What makes you think that deleting location history actually deletes the history? Reminds one of the group of students called Europe v. Facebook [0]:
Schrems described the file obtained through a legal request as
a 500MB PDF including data the user thought they had
deleted. The one sent through a regular Facebook request was a
150MB HTML file and included video (the PDF did not) but did
not have the deleted data.
Definitely, and this is why it needs to be a global option to disable location history - just sending it to them in the first place is the problem!
Can't you simply disable the GPS radio?
I still want maps, I just don't want my every move logged or sent to Google.
Yeah, that's what I remembered, but it seems they replaced "Delete Location History" with a "Manage Activities" button which opens Google Maps and shows you location history, allowing you to delete it but only one day at a time.
EDIT: Okay, found it. Follow your instructions then open that "Manage Activities" -> Menu -> Settings -> Scroll down -> Delete All Location History.
You _must_ do this for every account if you have multiple.
You _must_ do this for every account if you have multiple.
A global "turn off and delete all location history on this device" would be best, really.
At least for turning it off I expected it to be phone wide, not account specific. Deletion yeah, I suppose you're right.
It depends how you view what you're setting.
Do you think you're setting a behavior of the phone, or a behavior of your account?
I guess it could be both but I view it first as a setting of the account since you can also be location tracked perhaps by a browser, or your Wear device? That would be my first go-to on that setting but I guess it can be seen both ways.
In your Settings app Settings, scroll down and tap Google. Open a separate app called Google Settings Google Settings.
Tap Location and then Location History.
At the bottom of the screen, tap Delete Location History.
Also https://maps.google.com/locationhistory allows for delete all history.