How to delete Google Assistant Recordings?

Do you want to delete the Google Assistant Recordings, if yes then you are at the right location.

This is an undeniable fact that we all love to have an assistant in our lives and Google Assistant has become one of the greatest saviour for most of us. It is there to help us out in many different things which also helps the users to work through different devices. It is there with your phone, TV, car, speaker and even your watch. Even though it is really amazing app, there are also several limitations and drawbacks of using this app. One is that the users have to compromise with their privacy for using this app. Well, here we are going to tell you that how you can delete Google Assistant recordings.

Despite being such an amazing app, Google Assistant’s recording feature might trouble a lot of people out there. Whenever you’ll say “Hey or OK Google”, it will start recording your voice. As per the firm, the reason behind recording voice is to improve the voice matching.

Now for all those who do not want Google Assistant to have their recordings, here are few steps through which you can easily delete your recordings.

There are three methods, you can either delete your recordings manually, through auto-delete or by opting out from recordings completely. Here are steps for deleting recordings via Auto-Delete –

How to Auto-Delete Google Assistant Recordings?

1. First of all you will have to head towards the Activity Control page and check whether you are signed in or not. If not then sign in with your Google account.
2. After this, you will see an option of “Auto Delete” under the “Web & App Activity” option.
3. Now you will see two options of auto-delete. One is to delete the data after 3 months and another one is for 18 months. You can choose any one of them and you are good to go.

How to delete the Google Assistant Recordings Manually?

Now comes the steps for deleting the recordings manually –

1. Here you will have to go to myaccount.google.com and sign in to your account for which you want to delete the recordings.
2. After signing in, go to the “Data & Personalisation” tab and look for “Activity Controls”.
3. Under Activity & Controls, you will find an option of “Manage Activity” and click on “Filter by Date & Product”.
4. After doing this, you will have to find “Google Assistant” from the menu. Here you will see everything related to your Google Assistant which has been organised according to the date.
5. Now you can delete anything you want and to find out recordings, see the file that are having an microphone icon by their side. From here you can easily delete all the recordings you want, anytime and instantly.

How to completely opt-out Google Assistant Recordings?

For those who want to completely opt-out of the recordings, they can follow these steps –

1. Here also you will have to go to myaccount.google.com and sign in to your account.
2. Now go to the “Data & Personalisation” tab and find “Activity Controls”. Here you will find an option of “Web & App Activity”.
3. After clicking on web & app activity, go to the “Include Audio Recordings” option and here you will have to uncheck that box.
4. Now a message will pop up and you will have to click on “Stop Saving” and you are all set.

The main reason behind keeping the recording is to improve the voice matching but for those who are not comfortable with it, can easily delete their recordings by following these steps.