Manage audio recordings in your Web & App Activity

Important: Based on other settings, audio recordings may be saved in other places.

1. On your iPhone or iPad, open the Gmail app .
   • If you don't use Gmail, go to your Google Account.
2. At the top right, tap your Profile picture or initial Manage your Google Account.
3. At the top, tap Data & privacy.
4. Under "History settings," tap Web & App Activity Manage activity. On this page, you can:
   • View a list of your past activity: Items with the audio icon include a recording.
   • Play a recording: Next to Audio , tap Details View recording Play .

Multiple audio recordings: You may see multiple audio recordings associated with an activity if more than one of your Google Assistant-enabled devices processed your audio. We use this audio to improve our technologies that determine which device should respond to you.

If you get the "Transcript not available" message, there may have been too much background noise during that activity.

You can download your audio saved in your Google Account with Google Takeout. Learn how to download your audio and other Google data.

Tip: To add more security, you can require an extra verification step to view your full history.

Important: Based on other settings, audio recordings may be saved in other places.

Delete one item at a time

1. On your iPhone or iPad, open the Gmail app .
   • If you don't use Gmail, go to your Google Account.
2. At the top right, tap your Profile picture or initial Manage your Google Account.
3. At the top, tap Data & privacy.
4. Under "History settings," tap Web & App Activity Manage activity. On this page, you find a list of your past activity. Items with the audio icon include a recording.
5. Next to the item you want to delete, tap Delete Delete.

Delete all items at once

Important: These steps will delete all of your Web & App Activity, not just items that include a recording.

1. On your iPhone or iPad, open the Gmail app .
   • If you don't use Gmail, go to your Google Account.
2. At the top right, tap your Profile picture or initial Manage your Google Account.
3. At the top, tap Data & privacy.
4. Under "History settings," tap Web & App Activity Manage activity. On this page, you find a list of your past activity. Items with the audio icon include a recording.
5. Above your activity, tap Delete All time.
6. Follow the on-screen instructions.

Delete your audio recordings automatically

Important: These steps turn on the auto-delete option for all of your Web & App Activity items, not just items that include an audio recording.

1. On your iPhone or iPad, open the Gmail app .
   • If you don't use Gmail, go to your Google Account.
2. At the top right, tap your Profile picture or initial Manage your Google Account.
3. At the top, tap Data & privacy.
4. Under "History settings," tap Web & App Activity Manage activity.
5. Above your activity, in the search bar, select More Keep activity for.
6. Tap the button for how long you want to keep your activity Next Confirm.

Google may delete your audio recordings from Google servers sooner than the timeframe you choose, once it's no longer needed for developing and improving Google’s audio recognition technologies and the services that use them. For example, less audio may be needed for some languages over time.

For some audio technology improvements, samples of audio saved on Google servers when this setting is on are analyzed by trained reviewers, who listen to, transcribe, and annotate it, so Google services can better interpret the audio, for example, what someone is saying in a noisy environment or in a particular language. We take steps to protect your privacy as part of this process, like disassociating your audio from your account when reviewers analyze it.

This process helps services better understand what people say to them. For example, Google improved automatic speech recognition for data-scarce languages by training a single model on transcribed audio from data-rich languages, which allowed for real-time multilingual speech recognition.

Important: This info applies if you turn on voice and audio activity after June 6, 2022.

Some of Google’s audio technologies, like Voice Match, can match similar voices, tell voices apart, or be enhanced by a unique voice. If you use Google Assistant with Voice Match and you’ve turned on this voice and audio activity setting, Google may also temporarily process a model of your voice from your saved audio to develop and improve Google’s voice technologies and the Google services that use them. Learn how your voice works with other settings.

We take steps to protect your privacy as part of this process. For example, if a model of your voice is computed from saved audio, it is disassociated from your account, temporarily processed to improve our audio recognition technologies, and then deleted. Each instance of this voice processing may take up to 7 days. Voice models may be considered biometric data in some jurisdictions.

When this voice and audio activity setting is on for your Web & App Activity, Google will save audio recordings when you interact with Google Search, Assistant, and Maps, in your Google Account.

Audio is saved when your device detects an activation. Devices may support different types of activations, like “Hey Google,” a quick phrase you turn on, continued conversations, or mic presses. Some devices include a few seconds before the activation to catch the complete request.

Audio may be saved if your device incorrectly detects an activation, like a noise that sounds like “Hey Google.” We’re constantly working to make our systems better at reducing unintended activations.

If you use your device without an internet connection, audio may be saved in your Google Account once you return online.

If you turn off this voice and audio activity setting, Google will no longer save audio recordings in your Google Account on Google servers with your Web & App Activity when you interact with Google Search, Assistant, and Maps. Google will continue to process your audio to respond to you when you speak to Google services.

Turning off the voice and audio activity setting does not turn off separate Assistant audio settings.

When the voice and audio activity setting is off, Google won't use audio previously saved when this setting was on to improve its voice technologies like Voice Match. Previously saved audio may continue to be used to improve other audio technologies unless you delete it.

You can delete previously saved audio in your Web & App Activity at activity.google.com.