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26-point Google account audit — Web & App Activity, Timeline location, YouTube history, My Ad Center, Drive link sharing and third-party app access.
This checklist audits the 26 Google account settings that decide what is recorded about you, how long it is kept, who can see it and which apps still have access. It covers Web & App Activity and its audio and Chrome sub-settings, the 3, 18 and 36-month auto-delete options, YouTube History, Gemini Apps Activity, Timeline location records, My Ad Center personalisation, Drive link sharing and third-party app connections. Because pausing a control and deleting what it already stored are separate actions, each is listed separately.
Open Google Account Privacy Checklist on AltFTool — it loads instantly in your browser.
Add your input to the workspace.
Adjust the options until the result looks right.
Copy or download the output and put it to work.
Most guides stop at pausing; the backlog of stored activity is usually the larger exposure.
The audio-recording and Chrome-history switches sit inside Web & App Activity and are missed by almost every walkthrough.
Minimising retention, sharing a screen at home and protecting work data produce different orderings of the same list.
Go to myaccount.google.com > Data and privacy > Web & App Activity and turn it off, or set auto-delete to 3 months, the shortest option Google offers. Pausing only stops new records — clearing what is already stored needs a separate Delete activity by > All time on myactivity.google.com.
New accounts default to auto-deleting Web & App Activity after 18 months, with 3 and 36 months also available. Older accounts often have auto-delete switched off entirely and hold everything since the account was created, so it is worth checking rather than assuming the newer default applies.
It was renamed Timeline and moved to on-device storage, with auto-delete defaulting to three months on migrated accounts. Check your own account under Data and privacy, because accounts that never completed the migration can still hold years of cloud-stored location records.
No. Turning personalisation off in My Ad Center stops your profile being used to select ads, but activity is still recorded unless you also turn off or auto-delete Web & App Activity, YouTube History and Timeline. The two are separate controls doing separate jobs.