How to Manage & Delete Google Search History | Phone and PC

It’s surprising to know that our Google account is so well integrated with all the Google apps that whatever we search on those apps gets stored in it as activity history. Whether you are using the Google app to search for your queries, Google Maps to find a location or YouTube to search videos, all your searches are stored in your Google account which is used by Google to give you more personalized and better service across its apps.

However, there are many people out there who are more privacy-conscious and don’t want to leave any traces of their Google searches behind. So if you are one of them and would like to manage your Google search history, then this article is for you. As Google offers you full control to manage your Google activity, you are allowed to tweak settings and make some changes regarding your Google activity. This article will assist you in managing your Google activity and deleting Google search history with a detailed step-by-step guide for both phone and PC.

Also read: How to Delete YouTube Watch History on PC or Mobile

How to Managing Google Search History on Phone

Delete Google Search History

1. Open the Google app on your phone.

2. Next, click on your profile icon at the top right corner and select Search History.
   

3. In the History tab, you will be able to view your Google search history. To clear your search history, click on Delete and select Delete all time.

4. Now it will ask for the confirmation so click on Delete.

5. After confirming, your search history will be cleared, so click on OK to go back.
   

Set Up Auto Deletion of Search History

1. To set up auto-deletion, go to the Search history settings, and click on the Auto-delete option.

2. If you don’t want to auto-delete Google search history, select the Don't auto-delete activity option and proceed.

3. If you want to allow auto-deletion of your search history, select the Auto-delete activity older than option, and then from the dropdown menu, choose your preferred duration of months.
   

4. After you select the months, click on Next.

5. On the next page, confirm your preference by clicking on the Confirm button.

6. Now your preference to auto-delete Google search history is saved. Click on OK to go back.
   

Disable Web & App Activity

1. To disable the Web & App activity history of your Google account, go to the Controls tab of Search history. Click on Turn off and select Turn off and delete activity to delete your previous web & app activity history. If you want to keep your old history, you can proceed with the Turn off option.

2. Click on Next.

3. Now you will see the platforms where this setting will take effect. You can select them all or unselect a few according to your preference. After that, click on Next.
   

4. Confirm the deletion by clicking on Delete.

5. Click on OK to go back after the deletion of previous web and app activities.

6. Now you will see that your web & app activity is disabled.
   

How to Managing Google Search History on PC

Delete Google Search History

1. Open Chrome or any other browser on your PC and go to the following site: https://myactivity.google.com/
   

2. On My Google Activity page, you will be able to view all your Google search activity that can be filtered by date and product. To delete your activity, click on Delete.
   

3. Select Always to delete all of your Google search history. You can go with other options as well according to your preference.
   

4. Choose the activity you want to delete and then click on Next.
   

5. Click on Delete to confirm the deletion.
   

Set Up Auto Deletion of Search History

1. On My Google Activity page, click on Web & app activity.
   

2. Now click on Deleting activity older than option under Auto-delete.

3. If you don’t want to auto-delete Google search history, select the Don’t auto-delete activity option and proceed.

4. If you want to allow auto-deletion of your search history, select the Auto-delete activity older than option and then from the dropdown menu, choose your preferred duration of months and then click on Next.
   

5. Click on the Confirm button to confirm the auto-delete preference.
   

6. Now that you have successfully saved your preference, you can click OK to go back.

Disable Web & App Activity

1. On My Google Activity page, click on Web & app activity.
   

2. Click on Turn off to access the dropdown menu and then select Turn Off. You can select Turn off and delete activity if you want to clear your older activity history as well.
   

3. Confirm disabling of web & app activity by clicking OK and you are done.