If you opted to save images you search with Visual Search History, you may donate them to Google. Only images saved to Visual Search History while donation is enabled are part of this program. When Visual Search History Donation is enabled, trained human reviewers at Google may review the images saved to your Visual Search History to build and improve Google products, services, and machine learning technologies.
Tip: Visual Search History Donation is off by default.
Turn Visual Search History Donation on or off
Visual Search History Donation is a device-specific setting. Google only reviews images saved to Visual Search History from devices opted into donation. If 2 devices are signed into the same account, and only one opts-in to donation, images you search for on both devices are saved to Visual Search History.
To donate images, Visual Search History must first be turned on. Manage your Visual Search History in your Web & App Activity.
You can change the Visual History Donation setting at any time.
- On your Android phone or tablet, go to the Google app
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- In the search bar, tap Google Lens
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- At the top right, tap
Donate your Visual Search History.
- Turn Visual Search History Donation on or off.
Donate your Visual Search History.When Visual Search History Donation is off, new content saved to your Visual Search History won't be eligible for this program. Content that was previously donated can still be analyzed by human reviewers to build and improve Google products, services, and machine learning technology. You can delete these images from your Visual Search History to stop Google's usage of them for these purposes.
Learn how to find or delete images in your Visual Search History here.Check if an image has been donated
- Visit myactivity.google.com.
- Find the query image you want to check.
- If the image was donated, you'll find "Donated to Google" in the subtitle.
How donated images are used
Donated images are used by Google to build and improve products, services, and machine learning technologies, to make them more helpful, and work better for all users.
While donated images aren't associated with personal identifying information from your Google account, only share content that isn't of a personal, sensitive, or confidential type.
All donated images are deleted in accordance with your Web & App Activity auto-delete settings, although some images may be deleted sooner. Learn how to manage your automatic deletion here.
You can also manually delete images from your Visual Search History. Learn how to find or delete images in your Visual Search History here. Once you delete images from your Visual Search History, they won't be available for human review and won’t be used for future product and machine learning technology improvements.