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Hello Jack,
We’re updating our settings to give you even more control over saved
history and personalized recommendations across Google Search services,
including Search, Maps, Shopping, Hotels, Flights, Translate, and News.
You’ll see this change in your Google Account in the next few days.
What’s changing
Previously, saving history and personalization were managed by Web & App
Activity. Going forward, we're introducing two new settings to help you
better tailor your experience: Search Services History and Personalized
Recommendations. These settings let you revisit your past searches and
decide if you want your experience to be personalized. You can turn these
settings on or off at any time. As people increasingly search in new ways,
like searching a photo with Lens, Search Services History now includes
media from your interactions, which you can stop saving at any time.
How this affects your account
New history and personalization settings: These new settings will reflect
your most recent choices for Web & App Activity and Search Personalization
settings. If these are currently on, these new settings will stay on. If
they’re off, the new settings will be off. After the transition, Web & App
Activity and Search services settings will be separate, and changes to one
won’t affect the other.
Auto-delete: Your prior choice from Web & App Activity for how long your
history is saved will also apply to Search Services History. As always, you
can change how long history is saved, choose an auto-delete period, and
review or delete history manually at any time.
Your media is saved when Search Services History is on: Saved media
includes your images, files, audio and video from your interactions with
Search services to help improve your experience. For example, this lets you
revisit your past visual searches with Lens or continue a Search Live
conversation about a song you heard. To support these types of interactive
product experiences, Google will now save your media to your Search
Services History, applying robust privacy and security protections. Like
your Search Services History, your saved media is also used to develop and
improve Google services and technologies, including AI models and safety
measures. With this transition, if your Web & App Activity setting is
currently turned on, this new Save Media subsetting will also be turned on
along with your Search Services History. You can turn off your
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Media subsetting at any time, and you can also delete individual pieces of
media from your history.
You can manage these preferences on your
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Services History and
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Services Personalization pages.
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