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. Click Service status.

5. To turn on or off a service for everyone in your organization, click On for everyone or Off for everyone, and then click Save.

6. To turn on or off a service only for users in an organizational unit:

   1. At the left, select the organizational unit.
   2. Select On or Off.
   3. To keep the service turned on or off even when the service is turned on or off for the parent organizational unit, click Override.
   4. 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 organizational structure.

7. To turn on a service for a set of users across or within organizational units, select an access group. For details, go to turn on a service for a group.