How to Delete Your Google Search History – Step by Step Guide
Google knows a lot about you – but you have plenty of control. There are some quick ways to delete some of the most personal info Google holds on you. Google has built special buttons that let you remove specific chunks of info – or remove it all at once. An official memo from the company details exactly how to do it.
Delete Individual Items
The most gentle way to remove info is by deleting individual items. That might be a single search that you did on Google. Or it could be a website that you visited that has been saved in your Google Chrome history. In that case, you’ll want to go to myactivity.google.com. Then scroll down until you find your activity. Look for a specific item that you want to bin, and then tap the delete button.
Delete It All
Maybe you’d prefer the nuclear option instead: total deletion. Thankfully that’s easy too, and can be done on the same activity page that you use to delete individual items. In this case, look at the top of the screen above your activity. Tap the Delete option and then choose All Time. Then choose Next > Delete to wipe all of your activity that Google has saved.
Set Up Automatic Deletion
You can also set your Google to automatically delete some of your information. On an Android phone, go into your Settings app then choose Google > Manage Your Google Account. Then tap on Data & Privacy > History Settings and tap on activity that you want to auto-delete. Then choose Auto-Delete, select a timeframe, and then click Next > Confirm. On iPhone, you’ll find these settings inside the Gmail app. And on a computer, you’ll need to go to your Google Account via a web browser.
Google Chrome – All You Need to Know
Here’s a quick guide on Google Chrome:
- Google Chrome is a web browser created by Google.
- It’s cross-platform, which means it works on a range of systems including Microsoft Windows and Apple’s iOS.
- The browser also serves as the main part of Chrome OS – Google’s own operating system.
- Most of Chrome’s code comes from Chromium, an open-source project built by Google.
- Google Chrome is Google’s general-release browser based on Chromium, but anyone can build a Chromium app.
- The full Google Chrome browser is completely free to download and use.
- According to StatCounter, around 68% of all web browsers globally are Google Chrome.
- That’s down from a peak of 72%.
- Google Chrome was first released on September 2, 2008.