Google Maps Incognito Mode: Why Enabling Feature Is A Good Thing

Google CEO Sundar Pichai has recently confirmed that they are adding Incognito Mode on to the Google Maps service. This feature was previously exclusive to the Google Chrome web browser. Here’s why you should trust this feature when enabled for Google Maps.

According to Inverse, Google is planning to add the Incognito Mode feature to more of its online services. The next service to receive this feature is the Google Maps app, which gives people access to a world map complete with street views to find their way around places they visit.

The Incognito Mode basically prevents the app or service, such as Google Chrome, from tracking your browser activity for better internet privacy. The company has also extended the feature to its video-streaming site, YouTube, which can prevent the site from tracking the user’s search history.

So far, the Incognito Mode feature in Google Chrome allows users to browse more comfortably through the internet with less fear of getting tracked down by ads. The feature prevents Google’s crawlers from monitoring and taking users’ browsing history. This mode also prevents users from being tracked by malicious users and software as they visit sites which could have been compromised due to malware, viruses and unwanted pop ads.

The addiction of this feature to Google Maps can help many users since it would completely blot out users’ search history on every place they’ve searched for using the app. The Google Maps search history can be a reliable tool to track down a person’s whereabouts or routes to work, but these details should be highly private. If Incognito Mode is activated, users can rely on the service without the risk of other people knowing their routes.

While Google’s Pichai confirmed that this feature is coming, the release date is left vague with a “soon” release date. Additionally, the mode is planned for the whole service. Google didn’t confirm if both its mobile phone and browser page version would receive this feature.

For now, users who want to have the Incognito Mode on Google Maps will have to wait until the company starts revealing more information about its planned release.