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If you don't want your partner, spouse, or housemate to see your Google search history or YouTube viewing history, but you don't want to use incognito mode, good news.

These two histories can now be password protected.

By default, you can see all your Google activity (web searches, map searches, YouTube history, ask Google Assistant, etc.) at activity.google.com.

So anyone with access to the device you're logged into can see everything you search for, see, or ask about.

If you enable the feature introduced this time, you will be prompted for your Google account password when you try to view past activity.

How to protect your Google search history

To turn on this feature, visit activity.google.com.

If you are not already logged in, please log in and click the link Manage my activity authorization.

When the pop-up screen appears, check Require additional authentication and click Save.

For confirmation, you will be asked to enter your password on the Google login screen. Once this feature is enabled, you will have to tap the Confirm button and enter your password every time you want to view your activity.

However, it is not completely safe as you only need to enter your Google account password.

If someone you don't want to see knows your password (e.g. if you share an account), they can easily see you.

If you never want to see your history, you can manually or automatically delete your Google activity.

Google will automatically delete activity that is 3, 18, or 36 months old (go to Google My Activity > Web & App Activity > Auto-delete and choose a time period of your choice). Please specify).

Set search history and location information on Google to "auto-delete"

You can also manually delete your activity or turn off activity saving on your Web & App Activity page. The same is true for YouTube and location history.

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Source: The Verge, Google