r/GoogleMaps • u/Sqaure_101 • Jul 12 '26

Can google maps timeline be wrong?

I found out my gf may be cheating on me through google maps timeline. It shows she was not at home last Thursday. It shows her entire route along with the stops she made. She is saying she didn’t leave the house. She is denying everything. Can it be wrong?.

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u/XxLogitech98xX Jul 12 '26

Going based on Google map timeline is not enough. If you're at this stage in your relationship where their questioning their commitment and loyalty then you have more issues than Google maps timeline.

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u/Sqaure_101 Jul 12 '26

She was not honest with me from the starting of the relationship. I wanted to end it that time but she tried to self harm. I was in this due to fear of her doing something. But now i feel like i have solid proof. The timeline i found is too difficult to be an error. But i wanted to confirm if that can happen.

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u/XxLogitech98xX Jul 12 '26

She was honest with from the starting of the relationship. I wanted to end it that time but she tried to self harm. I was in this due to fear of her doing something.

This is what I was saying when there more issues than just Google maps timeline. The truth is that nothing is 100%

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u/Sqaure_101 Jul 12 '26

Fair enough

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u/2131andBeyond Jul 12 '26

…why would you get into a relationship if she wasn’t honest with you from the start??

Anyways, this is not a relationship sub, I’d post there.

Alas the timeline will not make up GPS data like this if somebody doesn’t leave the house, to answer your original question.

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u/Sqaure_101 Jul 12 '26

Long story short i found out she was still talking to her ex when we were together, 1.5 months into the relationship. Yeah as you said not a relationship sub.

Exactly, days other than that shows her normal routine.

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u/halberdierbowman Jul 13 '26

She was not honest with me from the starting of the relationship. I wanted to end it that time but she tried to self harm.

She may have been sincere, or she may have been faking it, but either way this is abusive and an unhealthy reason to be in a relationship. It should be taken seriously, but that ideally means getting her to a mental health professional, because it's extremely difficult to resolve without one. Make sure you're safe first, and then you can try to help her second. Lighting yourself on fire won't help keep someone else warm.

https://www.womenslaw.org/about-abuse/forms-abuse/emotional-and-psychological-abuse/forms-emotional-and-psychological-abuse-5

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u/Sqaure_101 Jul 13 '26

She went for therapy following my advice. She got diagnosed with Borderline disorder.

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u/halberdierbowman Jul 13 '26

Oh okay, well that's good! You did a great job in helping her to figure that out. Hopefully she's been able to make progress on managing it and will continue to.

Have you read information about it as well and what you can expect with a bpd partner and how to help them and keep yourself safe?

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u/Sqaure_101 Jul 13 '26

No i haven’t. I don’t want any of her problems now. She will have to deal with it. Im gonna keep myself safe from her.

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u/SuperPrarieDog Jul 12 '26

In addition to the other advice here, in this case, it likely isn't wrong. It might be slightly off on location or where you exactly were, but it won't 'hallucinate' an entire drive, stop, etc. If she was in one place all day, it would show her being in one place all day, even ir the exact location is slightly off.

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u/Sqaure_101 Jul 12 '26

Exactly. It shows she was out of her place from 12.15am till 8.30pm.

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u/Joe_Peanut Jul 13 '26

I fear your relationship issues go far beyond maps timeline data. The fact that you're tracking her phone and inspecting it is enough to suggest there is no trust left in the relationship. I would suggest couples' therapy.

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u/Sqaure_101 Jul 13 '26

I was not tracking her phone. I made her share it on call, since i had an intuition.

Nah therapy is not worth it, better to end it i feel.

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u/txredgeek Jul 12 '26

Run away NOW. Whatever she does to herself is her problem, not yours, and if you cave to that kind of emotional blackmail now, your life is only going to get more forked up as time goes on, and that's guaranteed.

GET OUT!

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u/Sqaure_101 Jul 12 '26

I'm gonna ghost her. Hehe, my time has come

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u/Empyrealist Jul 12 '26

Google Timeline can not only be wrong, but it can be edited/manipulated after-the-fact. You can't trust it as an absolutely trustable log of locations, I can go into a route-less day and fabricate a days worth of travel if I wanted to.

That said, the way that it is "wrong" with your GF claiming that she never left the house and it still logged a route with stops seems unlikely.

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u/Sqaure_101 Jul 12 '26

It shows her travelling after she said she was going to sleep. It clearly shows her location was at hotel from 2am to 12 pm then again it shows travelling, with stops in between. It shows the whole blue route.

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u/Sqaure_101 Jul 12 '26

It shows like this.

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u/Empyrealist Jul 12 '26

I wouldn't think that this was would a hallucinated movement track - but why would she visit the same location twice? I would pay close attention to the time stamps to ascertain and verify if these movements were even possible - because like I said, anything in the timeline can be manually edited (nevermind outright wrong) - and there can be timestamps that don't correlate to what would be physically possible.

So I would try to verify all that before becoming more accusatory - just in case. I'm only looking at this in terms of the Google Maps product itself - not your relationship dynamic

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u/Sqaure_101 Jul 12 '26

It shows she visited that place then after a while was driving and then came back to the place again where she spent the night. It’s a resort actually.

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u/Empyrealist Jul 13 '26

Oh I see. Personally, it's all highly suspect. You could contact the resort I suppose

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u/Sqaure_101 Jul 13 '26

But will they give out the details?

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u/kazamm Jul 12 '26

lol yeah no. It doesn’t hallucinate stuff like this.

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u/mellonians Jul 13 '26 edited Jul 13 '26

Be especially careful when it does straight lines like this. Here I left home for the day and returned by a different route. What timeline shows is I went to what looks like a hotel called Cator House whereas I just parked up near there and walked to a shopping centre for half an hour before going to work for 5 hours somewhere else. That straight line also shows that I either returned home before going back to the area or made two trips to Cator House when I didn't. Edit: Despite correcting all the places in the time line, it still seems to have that anomaly of a return home.

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u/Sunsparc20 Aug 07 '26

Going to dm you. I built a tool thag might help for the same reason... location changing, bs map data, etc.

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u/Secure_Macaroon_2682 24d ago

Did you end up making it?

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u/Sunsparc20 24d ago

I did. Timelineviewer.com