Google Home and Assistant Save All – Deletes Voice Files

Google Home is now officially launched in Sweden. A big step for Swedish home automation, but also something that puts your finger on delicate issues of confidentiality. In fact, Google's smart assistant saves all your voice commands. After each "Hello Google", a transcript is recorded on your account.

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This also applies to Google Assistant on mobile, which also records audio files. He's also teaching Google Home how to do it, for example in the United States. However, we have so far found only audio files for Mobile Assistant.

Learn more: here you read Google's privacy policy and what you save

If you do not like your newspapers, you can take steps to fix them. The key is the Google Activity Activity Page, which allows the user to control what is collected and under what conditions. Here are also the settings of the Swedish-adapted Wizard, and here's how to use them:

Then you do with the wizard on your mobile

1 Browse the Google Page My activity

2 In the main view, click Activity settings.

3 Scroll to the Voice and Audio Activity header. There is already a controller to completely stop the voice recording. NB: If you disable this option, Google may not understand you properly, for example, searches or voice commands.

4 To manage individual records instead, select Manage the story.

5 You now get a chronological overview of voice commands in text and audio form. Touch the three dots next to each day to get the selection wipe off. Click again to delete!

Bonus Tip: An even faster way for your mobile recordings is to filter on Voice and sound directly from the home page. However, here is the choice to stop any voice recording.

So do with Google Home Assistant

1 Browse the Google Page My activity

2 In the main view, click Filter by date and by product. Select Assistant only. Then press the search icon (the blue magnifying glass).

3 You now get a chronological listing that includes mobile and speaker commands as text. The answers you received from the assistant are also listed here.

4 Touch the three dots at a specific time interval and select wipe off. Confirm to delete.