Up to now, 2025 has been a reasonably quiet yr when it comes to characteristic elimination and deprecation in Home windows 11. Microsoft eliminated various stuff from the OS in 2023 and 2024, and it is just now kicking the listing of deprecated Home windows options in 2025, with Location Historical past being first on the best way out.

Microsoft introduced the tip of the Location Historical past characteristic within the newest Home windows 11 preview construct for Dev and Beta insiders. In a nutshell, this API is accountable for gathering and storing your gadget’s location knowledge for the final 24 hours. Cortana and different apps with the corresponding entry to the API can get saved location knowledge with out requesting new positions (the API is restricted to three,600 positions) and supply customers with related info, suggestions, geo-based reminders, and many others.

Here’s what Microsoft says concerning the upcoming change:

We’re deprecating and eradicating the Location Historical past characteristic, an API that allowed Cortana to entry 24 hours of gadget historical past when location was enabled. With the elimination of the Location Historical past characteristic, location knowledge will now not be saved domestically and the corresponding settings can even be faraway from the Privateness & Safety > Location web page in Settings.

As of proper now, you will discover Location Historical past and associated choices in Settings > Privateness & Safety > Location. Observe that the change is not going to have an effect on Home windows 11’s capability to obtain your gadget location to offer related info. The one change is that knowledge is now not saved.

Among the different just lately deprecated options embody Advised Actions (actually useful, however, apparently, barely utilized by anybody characteristic), Paint3D, Legacy DRM providers, and extra. You will discover your complete listing of deprecated Home windows options within the official documentation right here.