Manage & delete your Gemini for Home activity

Important: You can find your Gemini for Home activity only after you’ve updated to the new Gemini for Home voice assistant. Gemini for Home is rolling out gradually. You’ll receive a notification when it’s available to you.

What does the Home History setting control?

Your Gemini for Home activity, such as voice assistant queries, saves to your Home History in My Activity. When you enable Voice Match and turn on Home History, Google stores your Gemini for Home activity in your Google Account. By default, your activity saves for 18 months. You can turn this off or change how long your activity is saved by going to Home History in My Activity. You can review your activity, delete your Gemini for Home activity, and turn off Home History at any time.

When Home History is on, Google uses your activity to develop and improve its services, including training generative artificial intelligence (AI) models. For more info about your Gemini for Home data and how you can manage it, go to the Google Home & Nest Privacy Hub.

Manage your Gemini for Home activity

You can find your Gemini for Home activity in the Google Home app or in My Activity from your browser. You can find details on specific activities, turn Home History on or off, or delete specific activities from your history.

Check your Gemini for Home activity

From the Google Home app

  1. Open the Google Home app .
  2. At the top right, tap your Profile picture or Initial.
  3. Tap Home settings .
  4. Under “Home features”, tap Privacy and then Home History.

From your computer or browser

Turn Home History on or off

  1. Go to myactivity.google.com/product/home.
  2. Turn Home History on or off.
    • When you turn Home History off:
      • Select Turn off.
      • Choose Turn off or Turn off and delete activity.
      • If you choose Turn off and delete activity, follow the steps to select and confirm what activity you want to delete.

Delete your Gemini for Home activity

  1. Go to myactivity.google.com/product/home.
  2. Choose the Gemini for Home activity you want to delete. You can choose:
    • All your Gemini for Home activity: Above your activity, click Delete and then All time.
    • The last hour or day: Above your activity, click Delete and then Last hour or Last day.
    • A specific time period: Above your activity, click Delete and then Custom range.
    • A specific day: Next to the day, click the next to the date.
    • A specific activity: Next to the activity, click the next to the activity item.
  3. If you accidentally delete something, you have a few seconds to tap CANCEL at the bottom left of the screen.

Change Auto-delete settings

By default, your Home History older than 18 months is auto-deleted. You can turn off Auto-delete or change the auto-delete period to 3 or 36 months.

  1. Go to myactivity.google.com/product/home.
  2. Near the top, click Deleting activity older than … months or Choose an auto-delete option.
  3. Choose how long your Gemini for Home activity is kept or select Don’t auto-delete activity.
  4. Click Next and follow the on-screen instructions.

Improve Google services with voice, audio and Gemini Live recordings

Important: This setting is off by default. To turn on this setting, you must turn on Home History.

You can let Google use your voice, audio and Gemini Live recordings to improve and develop its services, including training generative AI models.

To turn on this setting:

  1. Go to myactivity.google.com/product/home.
    • If Home History is off, click Off and then Turn on.
  2. Check the box next to Improve Google services with your voice, audio, and Gemini Live recordings.
  3. Once you’ve read the explanation of what this means, click Turn on.

You can turn off this setting at any time.

How your Home History is deleted from your Google Account

When you choose to delete activity manually or it deletes automatically, Google immediately starts the process to remove it from the product and our systems.

First, we aim to immediately remove it from view. Then, we begin a process designed to safely and completely delete the data from our storage systems.

Learn more about how Google helps you delete data from your account.

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