Google Maps Street View has turned 15, and now you can travel through time using the app on your smartphone.
Street View is turning 15 years old and to celebrate Google is updating the smartphone version of the feature. From today you can boot up the Street View app on your iPhone or Android smartphone and you’ll be able to look back through Google’s archive. Don’t have it installed? You can find it on the Google Play Store and Apple App Store
Just like time traveling with Street View on the PC, start by dropping into the location you want to see a past version of. Then, at the bottom of your screen look for the pull-out menu bar and you should see “See more dates” at the top of it. Click on this and you can scroll back to various points in time – though be warned that for some places your options will be a lot more limited than others. It all depends on how many times the Street View recording equipment passed through the location. For busy areas it could be over a dozen times, while a small lane in the middle of the countryside might have only been traveled along once.
