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Google has announced that by the end of 2021 it plans to automatically enroll 150 million users into two-step verification (2SV).

As we spend more time online, it’s increasingly important to keep your personal information safe.

Android Community July 16, 2021 While Google gives you the option to delete your search history occasionally or to not save it at all, there are certain advantages to keeping your Web & App Activity on. For one thing, it gives you more personalized experiences around various Google apps and services. But in case you share your device with another person, you now get another layer of protection for this so no one can just view all of your My Activity on the shared device. You can now require extra verification for viewing said search activity. This new tool from Google will ensure that othe...

  Google on Thursday announced a pair of new tools for its flagship iOS app that adds an extra layer of protection to saved search histories and allows users to quickly delete recent search data with the tap of a button. Announced in a blog post, the new search history protection feature restricts access to My Activity in the Google app. That section stores a user's search history, or what Google calls "Web & App Activity." When the setting is enabled, additional information like an account password or two-factor authentication is needed to view search history data. Google is positioning t...

Alerts Once the update rolls out to your iOS device, you’ll see an option pop up that lets you delete the last 15 minutes of your search activity. Photo: Caitlin McGarry / Gizmodo In its never-ending quest to convince users that it has privacy top of mind, Google is rolling out a quick auto-delete control to scrub the last 15 minutes of your mobile search history. The feature is arriving on iOS devices first, with the option coming to Android devices later this year. Advertisement The 15-minute scrub was originally announced at Google I/O 2021 as an additional option for the existing auto-d...