The Google app on Android has received a new feature that allows users to conveniently erase the last 15 minutes of search history.
Google spokesman, Ned Adriance, said in a statement to The Verge that the feature will be rolled out to everyone using the app in the coming weeks. He also revealed that Google was exploring pushing the feature to other platforms.
To try out the new feature, open up the Google app, tap on the profile picture icon on the top right corner of the screen, and then tap on ‘Delete last 15 minutes’ within the menu that appears.
The ‘Delete last 15 minutes’ feature sure has taken its time to arrive on Android. First announced back in May last year, it was rolled out to the Google app on iOS only a couple of months later, but gave a miss to Android for some reason.
At Google I/O 2021, Google announced it'd roll out an option to delete the last 15 minutes of your search history. This rolled out on iOS in July 2021 but was said to come to Android later. Well, it appears to now be rolling out!
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Google already allows automatic search history deletion for periods of 3 months, 18 months, or 36 months, and also presents an option to remove particular search queries from the history. But the new feature allows users to delete history from a much shorter session, which is new.
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