How to delete my activity manually on Google Search?

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How to delete my activity manually on Google Search?
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If you are using a computer or a phone, you might be using several of Google's sites and applications daily, be it Search, Maps, YouTube of Gmail. While using Google sites, apps and services, your activities are saved in your Google Account, allowing the company to track you.
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If you are concerned about your data being stored with Google, you don't have to worry anymore. It is possible to view and delete this activity data. In addition to deleting past data, you can also choose to stop Google from saving activities for most of the services going forward. This is quite easy to do and can be done even on your smartphone.

In this post, we explain how to delete your Google activity manually or deleting any particular activity.

How to delete my activity manually


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  • Open your device settings on your tablet or your Android phone.
  • Go to Google and then select your Google Account.
  • On top of the page, you will see Data & Personalization. Click on it.
  • Under the ‘Activity and Timeline’, tap on ‘My Activity’.
  • Click on the three vertical dots on the right of the search bar. Go to ‘delete activity by’.
  • Click on ‘All time’ you will see under ‘Delete by date’.
  • Now tap on Delete.

By following these steps, you will be able to delete you Google activity manually.

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How to delete the individual items in my activity



Here we are talking about deleting the specific items on Google search you did or a website that you visited on Chrome.

  • Open the device settings on your Android phone or tablet. Go to Google and then Google Account.
  • Tap on ‘Data and Personalization’ you will find at the top.
  • Tap on ‘My Activity’ you will find under ‘Activity and Timeline’.
  • Locate the items you wish to delete and to do this, you can follow two methods.
  • You can browse by day. Tap on the three vertical dots for more and then go to item view.
  • You can use filters or do a manual search.
  • Go to the item you wish to delete and then tap on the three vertical dots for more and then tap on Delete.

By using this method, you will be able to delete individual items in your history.

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