How To Delete Google Search History On Android & iPhone

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To delete Google Search History on Android, you need to open a browser and then visit the webpage My Google Activity by entering the myactivity.google.com on the URL box. 

Then you need to click on the three dots icon beside Search your activity and then click on Delete Activity by. Click on All time. 

Next, choose to select all the products. Then, click on Next. 

Confirm your action by clicking on Delete. 

To delete Google search history on iOS devices, you need to open Google Chrome and then you’ll have to click on the gear icon at the bottom. 

Click on Manage activity, then click on the three dots icon next to the search bar after resetting the filters on the page. 

Click on Delete Activity by. Next, you need to click on All time and then check to mark the box next to Select All the products. Then click on Next and click on Delete. 

How to Delete Google Search History on Android:

Follow the steps below:

Step 1: Open Chrome Browser & Go to – myactivity.google.com

If you’re looking to delete your Google search history, you can do it by following a few easy steps. To delete your Google search history, you need to go to the My Google Activity page of your Google account. You can use a browser to go to the My Google Activity page directly. 

You need to open Google Chrome and on the URL box, enter myactivity.google.com and then get into the web page. 

There’s nothing wrong with keeping the Google search history. But if you want to delete them, you should know that you’re erasing them permanently from your Google account and not just from any one specific device.  

Step 2: Tap on Three-dots > Delete activity by

After getting into the My Google Activity page, you will be able to see different options. You need to scroll down a little through the page and you’ll be able to see a search bar that says Search your activity. On the right side of the search bar, you’ll be able to see a three dots icon. You need to click on the three dots icon and then you’ll be presented with a few options in a white box. You need to click on the first option which is Delete activity by and it will take you to the next page. 

Click on three dot

Searching things that you should not search, need not search, or don’t want others to know about often makes the user think of deleting the whole search history.  Google keeps track of all your searches, but if you delete the entire search history, you won’t be able to see any of your previous searches again. 

Step 3: Select date ‘Always’ and Choose ‘Select All’

After you’re taken to the Delete Activity page, you’ll be able to see a few options. These options are provided for you to select the day or time of which you want to delete the Google search history. 

As you want to delete the entire Google search history of your Google account, you need to click on the third option which is Always. If you want to delete the Google search history of the last hour or the previous day, you can go for the Last hour or Last day option respectively. 

Click on Always

You’ll be taken to the next page which is the Choose activity to delete. On this page, you will need to select all those activities that you want to delete. 

To delete the entire search history of your Google account, you need to go for Select All by clicking on the square box next to Select All. 

Step 4: Tap on the ‘Delete’ option to Delete All 

After checking the Select All box you need to click on the Next button that’s at the bottom right of the screen. You’ll be asked to confirm your action on the next page. You’ll be shown all the activities that will be deleted if you confirm your action.

Click on Next

You can click on the Preview more button to see all the activities. After that, you need to click on the blue Delete button at the bottom to delete the entire search history of your Google account. 

Click on delete

How to Delete Google Search History on iPhone:

Try the following steps for iPhone:

Step 1: Open Chrome & Tap Gear icon and Choose ‘Manage activity’

If you’re sure that you want to delete your Google search history, you can do that easily by following a few simple steps. Here are the steps you need to follow to delete Google search history on your iPhone. You should keep in mind that once you delete the Google search history, you’re never getting it back as it will be permanently deleted from your Google account and so you won’t be able to see the previously searched or visited webpages. 

You need to open the Google Chrome browser and then at the bottom right, you’ll find the Settings icon which is sighted as a gear. You need to click on it. Next, you’ll be able to see a few options from which you need to click on Manage activity. 

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click on Manage activity

Step 2: Tap on Three-dots beside ‘Search your activity’ > ‘Delete Activity by’

You’ll be taken to the next page which is the My Google Activity page. If any filters are applied to the history, reset the filter by clicking on the Filter by date & product button. 

Click on Discover
Click on three dot

Then you need to scroll down the page and you’ll be able to get the search bar. Beside the search bar, you’ll be able to see the three dots icon. You need to click on the three dots icon and you’ll get a few options. From the options presented, you need to click on the Delete Activity by option. You’ll be taken to the following page which is the Delete Activity page.

 

Click on Delete by activity

Step 3: Select date ‘All time’ and tick on ‘Select All’

On the Delete Activity page, you need to select one of the options that are presented on the page. To delete the entire history of the Google account, you need to go for the third option which is All time. Then, you’ll be asked to choose the activities that you want to delete. You need to tick the Select All option to select all the apps and products. 

Select date 'All time'

But if you want to exclude certain apps, you can remove the tick mark from the boxes next to those apps, and then you’ll need to move ahead with the process by clicking on the Next button that’s at the bottom of the page. You’ll be taken to the next page. 

Click on Next

Step 4: Tap on the ‘Delete’ option to Delete All

On the next page, you’ll get the Delete option that you need to click to delete your entire Google search history on iOS. You should know that it will get deleted from all the devices on which your Google account is logged in. 

Tap on delete

Many users don’t feel safe keeping their browsing history as all the activities are tracked by Google; so they prefer to delete search history.

Frequently Asked Questions:

1. How do I delete all searches at once?

If you want to delete all the Google searches then you need to go for the All time option on the Delete Activity page. As you’re selecting All time, you’re choosing to delete searches from day one to that day. Once you delete it, you’ll not be able to get it back again. 

2. How to exclude deleting YouTube Search History?

If you don’t want to delete the YouTube search history while deleting your Google search history, then you need to deselect the YouTube app by removing the check mark from the box next to YouTube on the list of products. Now it will exclude the YouTube search history and then delete the rest. 

3. How to delete Google image search history?

To delete the Google image search, you need to make sure that the Image Search option is check marked on the list of products. 

When you’re told to select the apps or products whose search history you want to delete, you need to exclude the apps whose search history you don’t want to delete and select only those apps whose search history you want to delete.

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