Manage your Google data with My Activity
Important: We’re currently updating settings for Google Search services, which include Search, Maps, Shopping, Flights, Hotels, Translate, and News. These are rolling out gradually over the next few months. If the settings in this article do not match what you see, history and personalized recommendations for Search services are still controlled by Web & App Activity.
Our privacy and security tools let you control and protect your data. Your activity from the following may be saved in your Google Account:
- Google Sites
- Apps
- Services
Your Google Account saves data based on your settings in My Activity.
You can use My Activity to find and delete:
- Topics you search
- Articles you read
- Videos you watch
- Uploaded content
- Recordings from Search Live or Translate
Saved Activity gives you a personalized experience including:
- Faster searches
- Recommendations
- A better YouTube homepage
If you delete activity, it won’t be used to personalize your Google experience.
- Choose what activity to save in your account.
- Customize privacy settings to best meet your needs.
Activity comes from your use of:
- Google products
- Sites
- Apps
- Devices that use Google’s services when you're signed in to a Google Account
My Activity lets you use saved data to:
- Access and manage your search history and activity in one central place from any device.
- View and filter activity by date, product, and keyword.
- Manually or automatically delete some or all activity.
- You can delete individual items, activity from a certain time frame, or all activity. You can also choose to automatically delete activity older than 3 months, 18 months, or 36 months.
- Some Google products store activity in places other than My Activity.
- If Timeline is turned on, your precise location is regularly saved to your Maps Timeline.
- At any time, you can delete Timeline data.
- Your browser may save search history and other data.
- In Chrome, you can delete:
- You can browse in private to stop Chrome from saving:
- Browsing history
- Cookies
- Site data
- Info that you enter in forms
- If Timeline is turned on, your precise location is regularly saved to your Maps Timeline.
- You can find activity that may be saved elsewhere at other Google activity.
- My Activity doesn’t store content or files like:
- Documents, unless you have directly uploaded them in products like AI Mode
- Emails
- You can manage content or files directly in products like:
- Drive
- Gmail
- Google Photos
- Google Account comes with built-in security designed to detect and block threats like:
- Spam
- Malware
- Viruses
- Hackers
- Google stores activity securely with industry-leading encryption.
- You can require an extra verification step to view your full history on My Activity.
- If you have more than one Google Account, each account keeps its activity separate.
- We never sell your personal information.
- Choose what data your Google Account stores.
- Customize privacy settings to best meet your needs.
At any time, you can delete:
For limited purposes, like business or legal requirements, Google may keep certain data for a period of time.
You can always download your activity.