Here's what it looks like when you let Google store your location history. Even if you pause this setting though, the company will still store information about your your physical whereabouts.

Do you think you've stopped Google from storing information about your physical whereabouts? You might want to double-check.

Contrary to what a user might reasonably assume, pausing "Location History" tracking on a Google account doesn't actually stop the search giant from storing time-stamped location data, as revealed by The Associated Press.

Google makes it very easy to pause your location history, which saves information about where you go, through its Activity Controls page. If you pause location history, Google says that "the places you go are no longer stored."

That message is misleading, however.

Unless you turn off "web & app activity" tracking as well, Google will still store precise, time-stamped location data.

For example, even after I paused my Location History, Google still logged my latitude and longitude information when I searched for something: