How to View and Delete Device Information of your Google Account

As we all know that Google save your device data on the Google account. The data saved on your Google account are used to personalize and enhance your daily experience and usage of all Google services.

Google stores most of the device information which includes data about your contacts, calendars, applications and other device data to improve your experience across Google services

Google provides you an option to turn on and off the device information stored by Google.

Steps to Turn Device Information On of Off
1. Go to the Activity controls section of your Google Account.
2. Turn Device Information on or off.


When this setting is On, information may be saved from any device that uses your Google Account.
Turning on this setting helps you get more accurate results and suggestions from Google.

As per Google,
"Device information stores info about your contacts, calendars, apps, films, books and other data from your devices. It also stores the status of your devices, such as the battery level, the quality and duration of network connections, touchscreen, sensor readings and crash reports.
If you use your device without an Internet connection, your data may be saved to your account once you return online.

Not all Google services save this data to your account.

This data helps Google give you more personalised experiences across Google services, such as recognising when you say the names of people in your contact list and useful ads, both on and off Google.
This data may be saved and used in any Google service where you are signed in to give you more personalised experiences. You can see your data, delete it and change your settings at account.google.com."

You can even switch on or off any of the specific activities of your device that Google should store or not.

Steps to view and change the activity controls of your device that Google controls.
1. Go to the Activity controls section of your Google Account.
2. Click 'SHOW ALL ACTIVITY CONTROLS'.
The Activity Controls page shows all the categories of the device that Google manages. Below are the activities that can be managed:

  • Web and App Activity: Saves your activity on Google to give you faster search and better recommendation in Maps and Search engine:
  • Location History:  Saves the location and details of where you go.
  • Device Information: Stores information about your contacts, calendars and applications.
  • Voice & Video Activity: Records your voice to improve speech recognition.
  • YouTube Search History: Saves all your YouTube search which will make your future search faster and improve recommendations.
  • YouTube Watch History: All videos that you have watched on YouTube.

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