[hermannj314]

I have had location history turned off for 3 years and it works fine for me.

I always type in my home address, In fact it never remembers anything and I love that.

I'm glad Google gave me the option to turn it off and still use their product for free.

[judge2020]

Also the 'home' address and other address labels don't require location history to be turned on to enable quick navigation.

[prepend]

I had it turned off for many years and caved about a year ago.

Because: -it asks me every time I open it. Every day. -it won’t save places or favorites -it won’t save local maps -it won’t save my home address or common routes

Basically, they don’t do any local storage and force you to share data with google to get “basic” functionality that Apple Maps and other maps apps provide because storing local settings is dead simple (although local settings are encrypted and synced to cloud and can’t be read or used for analysis).