Google Account Settings

Navigate to your Google Account.

Personal info

Basic info

• Profile picture
  • Remove -> Remove
  • Three-dot menu in the top right corner -> Past profile pictures -> Delete any previous profile pictures by clicking on them and selecting 'Delete' at the bottom
• Name
  • Don't use your real name
• Birthday
  • Don't use your real birthday
  • Choose who can see your birthday
    • Turn on: Only you
• Gender
  • Turn on: Rather not say
  • Choose who can see your gender
    • Turn on: Only you

Contact info

• Email
  • Don't use your main email as a recovery email
• Phone
  • Remove your phone number
  • Devices eligible for auto-verification
    • Turn all off

Addresses

• Remove all addresses from your account

Data and privacy

History settings

• Web & App Activity
  • Turn off -> Turn off and delete activity -> Next -> Select all, then Next -> Delete
• Timeline
  • Turn off -> Turn off and delete activity -> Next -> Delete
• YouTube History
  • Turn off -> Pause
  • Manage history
    • Delete -> Delete all time -> Delete

Personalised ads

• My Ad Centre
  • Personalised ads -> Turn off

Search personalisation

• Personalise Search: Off (Use a privacy-respecting search engine)

Google Fit privacy

• Don't use Google Fit, see privacy-respecting alternatives

Info that you can share with others

• Location sharing
  • Stop all sharing

Apps and services

• Content saved from Google services
  • Remove any services you don't need and check the information stored in the others
• Third-party apps and services
  • Delete all connections with other services

Linked Google services

• Manage linked services
  • Unlink all services

Emails from Google services

• Manage email preferences
  • Google Pay
    • Updates and promos: Off
  • Google Updates
    • New devices tips: Off

Security

How you sign in to Google

• 2-Step Verification
  • Use a privacy-respecting 2FA authenticator
  • Store your Backup codes in a safe place

Your devices

• Manage all devices
  • Click on each device you no longer use and select Sign out

Enhanced Safe Browsing for your account

• Manage Enhanced Safe Browsing
  • Enhanced Safe Browsing: Off

Password Manager

• Use a privacy-respecting password manager

People and sharing

Contacts

• Contacts
  • Remove all contacts from your account
• Contact info saved from interactions
  • Save contact info when you interact with people: Off
• Contact info from your devices
  • Save contact info from your signed-in devices: Off

Business features

• Business personalisation
  • Business personalisation: Off

Share recommendations in ads

• Based upon my activity, Google may show my profile name, profile photo and activity in shared endorsements that appear in ads: Off

Payments and subscriptions

Payment methods

• Manage payment methods
  • Remove all payment methods from your account

Payments info

• Manage experience
  • Personalisation within Google Pay
    • Personalisation within Google Pay: Off
  • Payments transactions and activity
    • Delete -> Always -> Delete