Myactivity.google.com history

  1. Access & control activity in your account
  2. Manage & delete your Search history
  3. Delete your activity
  4. Everything you need to know about Google's My Activity page
  5. Before you continue


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Access & control activity in your account

When you use Google sites, apps, and services, some of your activity is saved in your Google Account. You can find and delete this activity in My Activity, and you can stop saving most activity at any time. About my activity My Activity is a central place to view and manage activity such as searches you've done, websites you've visited, and videos you've watched. To personalize your experience, your activity on certain Google services like Search, YouTube, or Chrome, can be saved as data to your account. This activity helps make your experience on Google faster and more useful. The kinds of activity that show up in My Activity can include associated info like location, and can depend on which Google products you use, and Activity is saved when you're signed in to your Google Account. Your Find & view activity Your activity is listed as individual items, starting with the most recent. Find activity • Go to your • On the left navigation panel, tap Data & privacy. • Under "History settings," tap My Activity. • To access your activity: • Browse your activity, organized by day and time. • To find specific activity, at the top, use the search bar and filters. Get details about activity To get details about an item: At the bottom of the item, tap Details. You'll find the date and time of the activity and why it was saved. You might also get location, device, and app information. Learn how to To strengthen your privacy on shared devices, you can choose to require an extra verifica...

Manage & delete your Search history

When you search on Google with Web & App Activity turned on, Google saves activity like your Search history to your Google Account. Web & App Activity saves data about the things you do across Google services, including associated info like locations, in your account to make your experience more personalized. We use your saved activity to give you more personalized experiences, like app and content recommendations. In • Delete Search historysaved to your Google Account. • Manage Search settings like what activity Google saves and when Google auto-deletes your history. Your Search history can also be saved to your device, like when you use the Google app while signed out of your Google Account. Manage & delete Search history Manage Search history saved to your Google Account Important: If you delete Search history that’s saved to your Google Account, you can’t get it back. You can delete a specific activity, or delete your Search history from a specific day, a custom date range, or all time. • On your computer, go to your • Choose the Search history you want to delete. You can choose: • All your Search history: Above your history, click Delete Delete all time. • A specific time period: Above your history, click Delete Delete custom range. • A specific day: Next to the day, click Delete all activity from [day] . • A specific activity: Next to the activity, click Delete activity item . Control your Search history • On your computer, go to your • On the left or at the top,...

Delete your activity

When you use Google sites, apps, and services, some of your activity is saved in your Google Account. You can find and delete this activity in My Activity, and you can stop saving most activity at any time. Delete all activity • On your Android phone or tablet, go to • Above your activity, tapDelete . • Tap All time. • Tap Next Delete. Delete individual activity items For example, this could include a search you did on Google or a website you visited on Chrome: • On your Android phone or tablet, go to • Scroll down to your activity. • Find the item you want to delete. You can find an item a few different ways, including: • Browse by day. • Search or use filters. • On the item you want to delete, tapDelete . Scroll down to your activity. • Filter your activity.You can filter by both date and product at the same time. • To filter by date: Tap Calendar . To find activity before a date, choose a date. • To filter by product: Tap Search . Then, select products you want to include. Some Google products don't save activity in My Activity. • Delete activity. • To delete all activity you filtered for: Next to the search bar, tap Delete Delete Results. • To delete certain items: Onthe item you want to delete, tap Delete . You can automatically delete some of the activity in your Google Account. • On your Android phone or tablet, open your device's Settings app Google Manage your Google Account. • At the top, tap Data & privacy. • Scroll to "History settings." • Tapan activity or his...

Everything you need to know about Google's My Activity page

But there's some good news, sort of. Google has introduced a new data dashboard called the My Activity page where you can see just about every single piece of data that Google has collected about you over the better part of the past two decades. Every website you've visited, every image you've viewed, every search term you've typed into the Google Search box. It's terrifying. But it's also pretty useful, because, as evidenced by the mountain of data Google has stored on you, knowledge is power. From the My Activity page you not only see what Google is tracking, you can also take steps to delete data and prevent future collection. What is the My Activity page? The My Activity page is a hub where you can see all of the key information that Google has been collecting about you over the years. You can find this page by going to How is this different from the Web History tool? Google's How does Google use this data? Google uses your data in two main ways: To improve its services for the general population (for example, using your mobile location data to get information on current traffic patterns) and to give you a more personalized experience (like autocompleting your searches). You can read more about how Google uses your data on its Sarah Jacobsson Purewal/CNET No. The My Activity page shows data from a variety of Google products, but not all of them. You can, however, find even more data that Google has collected by going to the My Activity page and clicking the menu icon i...

Before you continue

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