Manage & delete your Search history - Android (2024)

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 My Activity, you can:

• Delete Search historysaved to your Google Account.
• Manage Search settings like what activity Google saves and when Google auto-deletes your history.

You can delete a specific activity, or delete your Search history from a specific day, a custom date range, or all time.

1. On your Android phone or tablet, open the Google app .
2. At the top right, tap your Profile picture or initial Search history.
3. Choose the Search history you want to delete. You can choose:
   • All your Search history: Above your history, tap Delete Delete all time.
   • A specific time period: Above your history, tap Delete Delete custom range.
   • A specific day: Next to the day, tap Delete all activity from [day] .
   • A specific activity: Next to the activity, tap Delete activity item .

Tip: To add more security, you can require an extra verification step to view your full history.

Important: If you set your Search history to auto-delete, you can still manually delete your history at any time.

When you delete your recent queries from the search bar, it’s also deleted from My Activity.

1. On your Android phone or tablet, tap the Google search bar.
   • If you don’t find the search bar, open the Google app .
2. Touch and hold the recent query .
3. Tap Delete.

Even if your Search history isn’t saved to your Google Account, or you delete it from My Activity, your browser might still store it.

You can delete your browser history:

• In Chrome: Learn how to delete browsing history and other browsing data.
• In other browsers: Check your browser’s instructions.

1. On your Android phone or tablet, open the Google app .
2. At the top right, tap your Profile picture or initial Settings General Search customization.
3. Turn off Search customization.

• Connect your device to the internet: If you delete your history from My Activity on one device, you might still find it on a device that’s offline. When your device connects to the internet, it removes your deleted Search history.
• Clear your cache and cookies: Learn how to clear your cache and cookies.

If you use the Google app while you’re signed out of your Google Account, you might have Search customization turned on. If it’s on, Google uses searches from this device to give you more relevant results and recommendations.

For limited purposes, like business or legal requirements, Google mayretain certain types of data for an extended period of time.

• Delete your activity
• Change your Google app settings

• How Search works with your activity