Delete my activity: How to set your Google activity to automatically delete on Android mobile phone and iPhone

Looking for steps to delete Google activity? Here's a step-by-step guide

• By Snigdha Biswas -
Published On: October 19, 2022

Google account my activity zone is a central place to manage and view your activities such as websites visited, searches performed, and videos watched, among other things. While it is a handy feature and allows you to revisit your search history, some may find it concerning knowing how much Google knows about you. If you are in that lot, you should know there is an option to delete my activity in Google account. You can even make Google automatically delete your activity after a while. In this article, we will take a look at how you can delete your Google activity manually/ automatically on Android mobile phone and iPhone.

Is my activity in Google deleted automatically?

This depends on a particular setting. if ‘auto-delete" is on, Google automatically deletes your web and app activity, including your search history, after a particular period of time. If you want to change this, tap auto "delete" (off).

How to delete my activity automatically in Google

• On your Android device/ iPhone, open the app Google
• Tap on your profile and choose 'Manage your Google account' from the menu that pops up
• Navigate to Data and privacy
• Select the Web and app activity option and scroll down until you see 'Choose an auto-delete option'. Tap on it
• On the screen that follows, select Auto-delete activity older than. The default setting is 18 months, but you can choose between 3 and 36 months also.
• Once you have selected the settings, tap on Next to save the changes.
• After this, Google will automatically get rid of your activity, including search history, browser, and discover, after a certain period of time.

How to delete your Google search, discover, and browser history Google on an Android device

You can quickly delete your Google search Discover and browser history from Google on Android. Before we get to the steps, you should know if you delete the search history linked to your Google account, you cannot get it back. Additionally, instead of removing everything, you have the option to delete a particular activity or search history from a particular day or a custom date range.

Google Search activity

• On your Android Phone or Tablet, open the Google app
• Go to the top right, where you can click on your profile picture or initial, and then go to "search history."
• Choose which search history you want to delete.
• If you want to delete all your search history, above the history, tap delete and click on delete all times.
• If you want to delete search history for a particular period above your history, click on delete and choose to delete the custom range.
• If you want to delete history for a particular day subsequent to the day, tap on delete all activity from that particular day.
• If you want to delete a specific activity, next to the activity, tap delete activity item.

Discover activity

If you wish to delete discover activity, here's what you need to do:

• Visit the web activity page here and sign into your Google account if you have not already.
• You can view your daily summary of searches and Discover stories that Google shows you there.
• Click on "delete" to delete an activity.
  

Chrome browser activity

• On your Android Phone or Tablet, open the Google application.
• Tap on your profile picture on the top right it or initial.
• Navigate to search history.
• Choose the history that you want to delete. If you want to delete the entire search history, tap delete and then choose to delete all time

How to delete your Google search, discover, browser history on iPhone

Search activity

It is possible to delete your Google search, Discover, and browser history on your iPhone. Starting with the search.

• Open the Google app on your iPhone or iPad
• Tap on your profile picture or initials by navigating to the top right.
• Go to search history.
• Choose the search history that you wish to delete. if you want to delete all your history, tap Delete and then choose "delete all time."

Discover activity

• On your iPhone or iPad, go to the web activity page. Alternative, you can click here
• Sign into your Google account.
• You will see your daily summary of searches and Discover stories that Google shows you.
• Click on the delete button to delete an activity here.

Chrome Browser history/ activity

• Visit my activity page using a web browser.
• Click on delete and write about the activity
• Click on all time
• Next and then click on delete. All your browser history will get deleted simultaneously.

FAQs

Can you back up Google activity?

While you cannot back up Google activities, it is possible to backup contacts, Call history, settings, SMS, MMS, pictures and videos, and app data.

What happens when you delete your activity?

When you delete your activity manually, or it is deleted automatically based on your auto-delete setting, Google starts removing it from the product and the systems. First, they look to immediately remove it from view, and the data cannot be used to personalise your Google experience.

How do you access your Google activity?

• Visit your Google account.
• On the left navigation panel, click on data and privacy.
• Under history settings, click "My Activity."

If you want to view your activity or browse your activity, you can do so by day and time. You can use the search bar on the top and the filters to find a particular activity.