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From your smartphone
On your Android smartphone, go to Phone Settings then to the Google tab (or to the Google app on iOS). Then open the "Google Account" menu.
Select "Data and personalization" then in "Activity on the web and Applications" click on "Manage history".
Then all you have to do is click on "Choose to delete automatically", select one of the two possibilities, 3 or 18 months, and then confirm. Thus, if you opt for "3 months" for example, Google will delete all the data it has stored on you except those dating from less than 3 months ago.
Then, as the days go by, your Google Account will continue to automatically erase data from three months ago.
From your computer
On a computer, handling could not be easier since it suffices to click on this link, on manage the history, then on "Choose to delete automatically". Choose your period, confirm, and you're done.
A feature that was expected by many and which will finally make it easier to manage the use of this data by Google. Do not hesitate to take a tour in the other activity parameters of your Google account to realize how much you are not so secret to the Mountain View firm.
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