We use Google search every day – so much so that it has become an integral part of our lives. While Google is an excellent search engine that makes our lives a lot easier, there are a few concerns with its privacy and data usage implementation. In this article, we will help you delete Google search history so that the internet search giant no longer has access to your search data. You’ll just learn how you can disable Google from collecting search data about you so you don’t have to worry about deleting it again. Here is how you can delete Google Search history.
How to Delete Google Search History (2020)
Depending on the device you are using, the process of deleting Google Search history will be different. That’s why we showed you how to delete Google Search history not only on the web, but also on Android and iOS devices.
Delete Google Search History on the Web
1. Open google.com in your browser and click the Sign in button to sign in to your account. Now click on your profile icon and Click “Manage your Google Accounts”.
2. Here, Click on “Data and Personalization” in the left pane.
3. Go to the activity controls and Turn on Web & App Activity.
4. Here, Click “Manage Event” at the bottom of the page and will take you to a detailed settings page.
5. Click “Delete event” tab on the left.
6. Now, select the period you want to delete your search history. If you want to delete all your Google search history, you can select All time from the drop-down menu. To clear the Google search history, which includes your Chrome and Google app searches, click the All Products menu and change it to Search only.
7. Click on the Delete button and you will get several pop-up warnings about the deletion of your search query. Keep clicking the “OK” and “Delete” button until the job is done.
8. If you want to stop Google from logging your search query in the future, Go back to Activity Controls and turn on Web & App Activity. Here close the activity and your data will never be logged. Similarly, you can use this as YouTube Search history, Audio and Voice Activity, etc. You can also do it for other activities such as
Similarly, you can delete and disable logging of other search activities such as YouTube search history, Assistant queries, image search, voice search, and more.
Delete Google Search History on Android
1. Open Settings and go to Google and tap on it. Now Tap on the Google Account and switch to the “Data and personalization” tab. From here on out, the procedure is completely web-like. Although you briefly repeat the steps, tap on Web & App activity and then turn on manage activity.
2. After that, Tap the three-dot menu at the top right and select Delete activity by.. Select Search from the drop-down menu and the data erasure period. Finally, click the Delete button and your search history will be deleted from all devices with your Google account.
Delete Google Search History on iPhone or iPad
Deleting Google Search history on iPhone or iPad is similar to what we do on the web as we will be using the browser. You can download the Google app and do it that way, but it’s much easier if we just have a browser.
1. Open google.com Sign in to your Google account and in Safari or any browser of your choice. After that, tap on the grid menu and select Account. Here too the steps are quite similar to the above. Tap on Data and personalization-> Activity controls-> Manage activity.
2. Now type Search in the box above and filter the date as All time, if you want to delete all your search history. Then click on the three-dot menu and select Delete results. It will ask for your confirmation once and then delete all your Google search history.
Make Google Private and Enjoy Your Privacy
This was our quick look at how we can remove Google search history from all our devices. Other than that, you can rightfully disable all background activity logging, making your web experience even more private. If you don’t like Google and its tracking behavior, you can always abandon Google Chrome and switch to a more secure browser that blocks trackers and provides maximum privacy. As a result, we hope that you can easily delete your search history and make the necessary changes to your Google account. Let us know about your experience in the comment section below.
