Access & control activity in your account

When you use Google sites, apps, and services, a record of some of your activity is saved in your Google Account. You can easily access and control this activity, where you can find and delete them in My Activity. You can also stop saving most activity at any time.

About My Activity

My Activity is a central place to view and manage activity such as searches you've done, websites you've visited, and videos you've watched.

Find & view activity

Your Google activity data is listed as individual items, starting with the most recent.

Find activity

  1. Go to your Google Account.
  2. On the left navigation panel, click Data & privacy.
  3. Under "History settings," click My Activity.
  4. To access your activity:
    • Browse your activity, organized by day and time.
    • To find specific activity, at the top, use the search bar and filters.

Manage your activity

Get details about activity

To view details about an item: At the bottom of the item, select Details. You'll find the date and time of the activity and why it was saved. You might also get location, device, and app information.

Delete activity

Learn how to delete past searches, browsing history, and other activity in My Activity. You can also set up automatic deletion for older activity.

Require an extra step to find your full history on My Activity

To strengthen your privacy on shared devices, you can choose to require an extra verification step to view your full history on My Activity.

  1. Go to activity.google.com.
  2. Above your activity, select Manage My Activity Verification.
  3. Turn Extra Verification on or off.

Turn off & delete activity

You can control most of the information and data in My Activity.

  1. Go to your Google Account.
  2. On the left, click Data & privacy.
  3. Under "History settings," click an activity or history setting you don't want to save.
  4. Under the setting you don’t want to save, select Turn off.
  5. Follow the steps to turn off the setting, or choose to Turn off or Turn off and delete activity.
    • If you choose Turn off and delete activity, follow the steps to select and confirm what activity you want to delete.

Tip: Some activity isn't included in My Activity.

Stop saving activity temporarily

You can browse in Incognito mode.

Tip: If you sign in to your Google Account in a private browsing window, your search activity may be stored in that account.

Fix problems

Find other activity

Not all of the data that's saved to your account shows up in My Activity. 

For example, if you've turned on Timeline, that data is saved to your Maps Timeline instead.

To find other kinds of activity that are saved to your account:

  1. On your computer, go to your Google Account.
  2. On the left, select Data & privacy.
  3. On the "History settings," select My Activity.
  4. Above your activity, in the search bar, click More More and then Other activity.
  5. Below the activity you want to find, select your option.

Learn more about the information we collect and why.

To view and control other account information, open your Google Account.

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