Turn Web & App Activity on or off

As an administrator of your organization's Google Accounts, you can control who uses Web & App Activity. Just turn the service on or off for those users in your Admin console. Users who have Web & App Activity turned on can store their search history to get better search results and suggestions.

Control who uses Web & App Activity in your organization

1. Sign in to your Google Admin console.

   Sign in using your administrator account (does not end in @gmail.com).

2. From the Admin console Home page, go to AppsAdditional Google services.

3. Click Web & App Activity. 

   Tip: Scroll to see all services. Or at the left, choose a Filter to narrow the list, for example, based on status or popularity.

4. At the top right of the gray box, click Edit Service .

5. To apply settings to all organizations, click On for everyone or Off for everyone, and then click Save. 

6. To apply settings to individual organizational units, do the following: 

   • At the left, select the organizational unit that contains the users whose settings you want to change.
   • To change the setting, select On or Off.
   • To keep the setting the same, even if the parent setting changes, click Override.
   • If the organization's status is already Overridden, choose an option:
     Inherit—Reverts to the same setting as its parent.
     Save—Saves your new setting (even if the parent setting changes).

   Learn more about the organizational structure.