Google Assistant was officially launched with first-generation Pixel phones last year, but has grown to become one of the most popular voice-based personal digital assistants in the world alongside Amazon’s Alexa, Microsoft’s Cortana, and Apple’s Siri. In fact, it has recently reached all other Android phones besides iOS. However, not everyone who uses this feature realizes that the search giant records and stores absolutely every little voice call request from all its users. While we can turn off Google’s creepy habit of recording all our verbal interactions with Assistant and saving it for future generations, doing so will impact our ability to verbally interact with the AI-based system. However, Google gives us the option to get rid of all traces of our interactions with Assistant from our Google Account history. So, in case you want to delete your Google Assistant voice search history, you can do it like this:
Delete Google Assistant Voice Search History
First, you need to decide from the start whether you want to delete just a few individual conversations or your entire Google Assistant history. Both are pretty simple and the steps are almost the same regardless of whether you’re on Android or iOS. So let’s start by taking a look at what to do if you only want to delete a specific conversation.
Delete a Specific Question or Conversation
- To do this, you must first Launch Google Assistant. On Android you only need to say the magic words “OK, Google”, whereas on iOS devices you have to start the app manually. After opening the app on your device, just tap the little arrow You’ll see it at the top of the Assistant window, which should allow you to access your entire history from the first time you use the feature.
- Scroll the list to find the item you want to delete, then tap and hold that item until it is highlighted. You will be presented with several options at this stage, but all you have to do is Select “Delete Group”. That’s it, the specific conversation will be deleted from your account history.
Clear All Google Assistant Activity from the Beginning
- While you can delete your entire Google Assistant history as described above, if you’ve been using the service for a while, removing one conversation at a time will be a tedious and tedious process. In this case, the more efficient way to do this is, Sign in to your Google Account and go to you Assistant Activity page.
- While on your Google Assistant Activity page, Click on ‘Hamburger Menu’ (three small dots) in the upper right corner.
- Now Select “Delete activity by”, as seen in the picture below.
- On the next “Delete activity by” page, you will find options to delete your history for any day or any time period. Since you want to delete your entire Google Assistant history, Choose “All Time”.
- Tap ‘Delete’ and confirm your choice To get rid of your entire Google Assistant voice search history.
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Protect Your Privacy by Deleting your Google Assistant history
While performing the aforementioned steps will get rid of your entire voice search history, Google says that this may not always be immediately reflected on all your devices. According to the search giant, you may have to wait up to a day for the changes to appear on all your devices, but according to anecdotal evidence, it doesn’t take that long anywhere in most cases. Either way, now that you know how to protect your privacy by deleting your Google voice search history, give it a try and don’t forget to let us know how it goes.
