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
Before you begin: To turn the service on or off for certain users: Put their accounts in an organizational unit (to control access by department) or put them in an access group (to control access for users across or within departments).
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Sign in to your Google Admin console.
Sign in using your administrator account (does not end in @gmail.com).
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From the Admin console Home page, go to Apps
Additional Google services.
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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.
- Click Service status.
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To turn on or off a service for everyone in your organization, click On for everyone or Off for everyone, and then click Save.
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To turn on or off a service only for users in an organizational unit:
- At the left, select the organizational unit.
- Select On or Off.
- To keep the service turned on or off even when the service is turned on or off for the parent organizational unit, 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 organizational structure.
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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.