The importance of Incognito mode is known to all of us. It’s a useful feature available in the browsers that let users browse sites having in it without storing it in history. This surfing feature keeps your history clean and but even helpful in surfing without using your personal information. Now the same feature will be available in Google Maps but initially for the Android devices. The coming feature let you use Google Maps slightly in a different way with promising security.
Incognito is rolling out now and will be available for all the users in a couple of a few days. If it’s available in your device already then activate it simply with the following steps:
- Open Google Maps
- Tap on your profile picture
- Tap on ‘Turn on Incognito mode
When the Incognito mode will be activated, then any of your searches will not be stored in the search history of the device, location history remain unaffected and personal data will not be used for map personalisation. Once you have done then you can switch it off the same way to let the maps to regain the access of those things stored in the normal searching mode.
Not Judging, just keeping the browsing personal and safe
The activation of the Incognito mode is useful from both the privacy concerns and as well as keeping the search items out of the potential recommendations. Let’s understand with an example like if you are searching for the hotels during the trip but don’t want the search history to get mixed with those hotel recommendations for a week and months after. Similarly, if you don’t want anyone to know including Google that you went on the trip with somewhere, then it will remain closed with no search results proof. Here, Google is not judging you but just keeping your browsing safe and private.
It’s very useful if you want to hide your trip details that where you have been or what you have searched for. In fact, it’s an interesting implementation of Google of keeping your personal information out of the eyes of others with no hints. Even help you in getting the biased results of any queries asked on Google Maps.
