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Asked: 2026-05-18T06:19:58+00:00

I want to programmatically clear the history of the android maps (and navigation) application.

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I want to programmatically clear the history of the android maps (and navigation) application.

I know there is a way to clear the browser history via

Browser.clearSearches(getContentResolver());

and the corresponding permission: com.android.browser.permission.WRITE_HISTORY_BOOKMARKS
and this works fine (2.2.).

I couldn’t find any way to clear the Maps-History though.
Clearing the google/history online doesn’t help either.

There are some apps in the market that promote to do that, so there must be an API for it, but i really couldn’t find it yet.

I also messed around a bit with CLEAR_APP_CACHE and CLEAR_APP_USER_DATA but seems like they are signed/root-only permissions and delte too much anyways.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Got a reply from Richard, developer of aClean:

    To clear Google-Maps-Recent-Search-Suggestions:

    SearchRecentSuggestions mapsrs = new SearchRecentSuggestions(this.getBaseContext(), "com.google.android.maps.SearchHistoryProvider", 1);
mapsrs.clearHistory();

    Still doesn’t clear recent destination of Navigation, tried but there seems to be no equivalent..?

    IMPORTANT NOTE:

    Once you do mapsrs.clearHistory(); Afterwards when the Maps-Application gets force-stopped afterwards, your Application will be killed, too. Probably I’m missing to unregister/unsync the Provider. But I have abandoned to try to reset it now anyways.

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