My S25 Ultra arrived on Saturday. I used the Smart Switch app to transfer the data from my old phone, an S20 via Wifi. This was largely successful with most things being set up on the new phone as they were on the old phone. I was able to transfer my Google Maps Timeline history by using Maps to restore the S20 Timeline backup. This took a few goes but worked eventually after 24hrs or so.
My issue is that the S25 Ultra has not recorded a single visit in my Maps Timeline. I have tried restarting (the phone), disabling & enabling (the app, timeline, location, location sharing etc), clearing the data, cache, uninstalling & reinstalling (the app), removing my Google account and logging it back in again. I have logged out my S20 from my Google account, which was still recording timeline visits up until that point.
I recall there used to be a Google settings page where you could enable and disable which devices are able to record timeline visits on your Google account. That seems to have gone now. The S25 and the S20 are both listed as being on the account, but with no tick boxes to enable or disable them. The S25 is apparently backing up data and I can manually edit to add timeline visits. It simply doesn't record timeline events automatically, even if it is navigating and/ or sharing its location with another person.
Does anyone know how to get the S25 Ultra to record timeline visits automatically like my S20 does?
