Have you ever thought of a hidden feature of Google that has been around you for many years? The Google My Activity feature is the one that you might have missed for all these years. Read on this article to know the awesome features that Google offers you through My Activity.
Google's My Activity feature was launched in 2016 with a motive of providing all the past information and activities that a person has searched for. When Google announced the launch of this feature, everyone was thunderstruck and amazed. We will see the features that include in Google's My Activity.
Web and app activity:
This feature includes all your browsing activities, google searches, Maps history, App store searches and many more. This feature also includes all the activities that you did on various websites that use google services and all the apps that you have signed through google services.
YouTube history:
Google saves all the information and videos that you have searched on YouTube in the My Activity database. This also includes information about the videos that you have downloaded on YouTube and also the ones that you have watched. It includes watch time of videos, likes, shares etc.
Location history:
Many people keep their location turned on for the whole day. Well, Google saves this in the database as your location history. Wherever you go, like restaurants, playgrounds, hotels, clubs, etc, Google saves this and recommends personalized maps based on your activities without using any google services.
Google Ads settings:
If you have a google ads account, you can manage your account settings from your mobile phone. One of the main objective of this system is to personalize the ads that you may like, based on artificial intelligence and human recommendation systems.
YouTube 'Not Interested' feedback:
Whenever you see a unrelated video on youtube and just want to skip the section and category of those type of videos, this database helps you to see and store those feedbacks and also delete some in the future for better video scrolling experience.
YouTube survey answers:
Have you encountered a survey while you were just scrolling up the videos? If yes, then this database shows you the answers that you have provided for those specific surveys. Surveys help you have the best experience on YouTube according to your niche.
Comments on YouTube videos:
You can view, delete and edit comments that you wrote on some YouTube video in the past or just yesterday. This gives you a friendly yet useful interface for editing your public comments on YouTube. This is something which most people don't know.
Comments on community posts:
You can view, delete and edit comments that you wrote on any community post on YouTube.
YouTube likes and dislikes:
You can see the videos that you have liked in the past and also the videos that you have disliked.
YouTube purchase history:
Are you a user of YouTube premium? If yes, then you can see all your purchase history and subscriptions that you have on the YouTube premium service.
Google Play library:
There might not be even a single percentage of people who use phones but not Google Play. My Activity saves every app that you have had installed or wish-listed in your account associated phone. In future searching for that particular app that you had installed 3 years ago is not impossible.
News preferences:
You can see and delete your preferences about news that is shown to you on Google app.
Adjust your Chrome history:
When you sync your Google account with Chrome browser on any device, you can view, edit, delete and add bookmarks, history, passwords and all the private information that you have on any device synced with Google account on Chrome.
Google assistant routines:
What are Google Assistant routines? Routines are step by step functions that you can teach or add to your google assistant to personalize the Assistant experience. You can add to automate your daily tasks like, after snoozing the alarm your google home device must play 90s music etc.
Voice and Face match data:
All devices that you use with google assistant like google home and every smartphone that you use, you have at-least one of the data stored like voice data for the assistant to function and face match data for your smartphones to unlock. You can edit, add and delete this data from the My Activity database.
Google play books feedback:
Every book that you have marked as not interested or already present in your library are shown here.
When you first started using google assistant, she or he might have asked you about your name and what he or she should call you. When you told the assistant about your name and everything that you want him/her to remember, it got stored in the My Activity database. You can edit or delete your data from here.
Conclusion:
Google's My Activity feature might seem like a broad diversification of RTI(right to information), but it is just a small feature that was introduced to help the users know about what they do and what they might experience in the near future.
In the beginning, Google was associated with only one thing, i.e. web crawling and searching. But, today it has become one of the most successful companies in the whole world. It was necessary for Google to arrange users' data into separate databases and make it available for corrections and changes.
The reason why we love Google is just that it knows what we want. From the beginning of the Google era, we have been expecting and Google was offering it to us. And the same experience we will have with the new My Activity feature.
Written by - Shakti Swaroop Arha
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