You can choose the default account to sign in to games automatically, make your game activity public, or change other settings.
Important: We are currently making updates to Google Play privacy settings. If the settings described below don't match your current experience, then your account hasn't finished the transition yet. Until then, you can use the current settings available to you to personalize your Google Play Store experience.How Play Games handles your data
Play Games profile
Your Play Games profile shows your play stats, progress, and achievements in Android games on all devices using your Google Account. Your profile also shows up right in Google Play so it’s easy to find what you’ve accomplished. You can also build your gaming community and tailor your profile to your liking.
To help you connect with other players, you can make your profile public which will allow you to follow other players and find their updates. Learn how to manage your profile visibility & following.
How Google Play games collects and uses your data
To power the features of your Play Games profile and continuously improve your Play Games experience, here’s how we handle your gaming data.
- Data that Google collects and processes: Play Games collects and processes data primarily related to your game activity, such as the games you've installed, played on your devices, and how long you play them, as well as some related data like performance and device information.
- Data that Google may receive from participating game developers: For certain games, Google Play may also receive from participating game developers specific information about your in-game activity, such as achievements, leaderboard rankings, events, and saved progress. The participating game developers collect this information based on their terms of service and privacy policies.
The data collected by your Play Games profile is essential to enable features that enhance your gaming experience by keeping track of your stats and progress across games and devices. This information will be used to:
- Provide Play Games profile features and services (such as stats and progress tracking across games).
- Improve the overall Google Play gaming experience, improve and develop additional features and services, analyze and understand how the features are being used, track outages, and prevent fraud and abuse.
Depending on your Play History setting, certain gaming activities (such as what games you played and your achievements) may also be saved in your Google Account to provide more personalized experiences. For more information, see the article about Play History. To learn more about why Google processes your information, go to our Privacy Policy.
What gamer profile info can participating game developers receive
Participating developers may receive and/or collect information about your profile, activity (within their specific game), and purchases made in their game. To learn more about how game developers use this information, check the developer’s privacy policy.
Your Control: Manage your profile & data
You remain in control of your Play Games profile and associated data.
- Delete your Play Games profile and data: If you no longer want a Play Games profile, you can delete it entirely along with the associated Play Games data. Learn how to delete your Play Games profile and data.
- Controlling your Play Games profile visibility: You have the option to make your profile public, which allows other players to follow you and find your updates. Learn how to manage your profile visibility and following.
- Manage your Play History:
- Based on your Play History setting, certain gaming activity from supported games (such as what games you played and your achievements) may also be saved in your Google Account’s Play History and used to tailor your experience across Google services, like helping you find the apps, games, and books you’re looking for faster.
- To view and delete gaming activity, go to Personalization in Play in the main Play menu.
- When you delete Play History, Google still retains some data. For example, Google Play keeps information about the items you’ve purchased and downloaded so you’ll still have access to them. Deleting your Play History doesn’t affect the information collected by other settings or features you’ve enabled. For example, if you’ve created a Play Games Profile, it will keep information about your app activity to show your game stats. Deleting your Play History also doesn’t affect data that has been disconnected from your account which Google retains to provide, understand, improve, and develop our services. Learn more about deleting Play History.
Important: Your Play Games profile collects your gaming activity. Play Games profile data is separate from Play History data. Deleting your Play Games profile or specific data from your Play Games profile will not delete data from your Play History. The reverse is also true. Learn how to manage both.
Sign in to supported games automatically
For new games: You won't lose access to progress and settings for games you've played. However, your progress might split between accounts.
For all games: You might lose access to progress and settings for games you've played. To apply your changes, we'll restart the game.
- On your device, open the Settings app.
- Tap on your account (Google services and preferences) or Google, as appropriate for your device.
- Tap All Services
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- Tap Sign in account
- Change the default account.
Play Games.- Open the Google Play Store app
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- At the top right, tap your Profile icon.
- Tap Settings
- Tap Sign in account.
- Change the default account.
.Tips:
- If you want to sign in to a different Google Account for a game, sign out of that game and sign back in.
- A supervised Google Account can’t have multiple Play Games profiles.
- For supervised Google Accounts, not all games support automatic sign-in with a Play Games profile.
- If you sign out of all games, you might lose access to progress and settings for games you've played. To apply your changes, we'll restart the game.
Change when games can access your gaming community list
- Open the Google Play Store app
- At the top right, tap your Profile icon.
- Tap Settings
- Under "Gaming Community List Visibility", select whether games you play can automatically access your gaming community list (your followers who you follow back).
In device settings
- On your device, open the Settings app.
- Tap your account (Google services and preferences).
- At the top, tap All Services.
- Select Play Games
- Under "Gaming Community List Visibility," select whether games you play can automatically access your gaming community list (your followers who you follow back).
You can set visibility for all games, or adjust it for each individual game.
Tip: Play Games Profiles for supervised Google Accounts don’t have access to the Play Games followers feature. This setting can’t be changed.
How games may access and use your gaming community list
When you give a game access to your gaming community list (your followers who you follow back), you share a list of their gamer names with the game. This list doesn’t include your followers' email addresses. Games can use this info to let you find and play with your gaming community easily, subject to their privacy policies, which you may find in the games and on the Play Store pages for the games.
Additionally, for each game's use of the gaming community list, Google Play Games requires each game's developer to agree:
- To use this gaming community list only for the purpose of displaying a gaming community list to you within the game or enabling related gaming community functionality visible to the end user, and not for any other purpose, like advertising
- Not to store or retain this gaming community list for more than 30 days. After 30 days, the game is required to delete or refresh the gaming community list
- Not to make this gaming community list available to third parties, except as necessary to comply with applicable law
Change notification settings for your games
You can manage game notifications through the device's main Settings app, directly from a notification by long-pressing it, or within the game's own settings menu.
Since the steps can vary by device and Android version, go to Control notifications on Android.