Manage & delete your Bard activity

When Bard Activity is on, Google stores your Bard activity in your Google Account. You can review your prompts, delete your Bard activity, and turn off Bard activity in My Activity at any time.

Learn more about Bard activity.

Find your Bard activity

On your computer, go to bard.google.com.
At the top right, click Bard Activity .
- You can also go to myactivity.google.com/product/bard.

Delete your Bard activity

On your computer, go to bard.google.com.
At the top right, click Bard Activity .
- You can also go to myactivity.google.com/product/bard.
Choose the Bard activity you want to delete. You can choose:
- All your Bard activity: Above your activity, click Delete All time.
- The last hour or day: Above your activity, click Delete Last hour or Last day.
- A specific time period: Above your activity, click Delete Custom range.
- A specific day: Next to the day, click Delete all activity from [day] .
- A specific activity: Next to the activity, click Delete activity item .

Pause saving your Bard activity

By default, your Bard activity is saved to your Google Account. To pause saving your Bard activity:

On your computer, go to bard.google.com.
At the top right, click Bard Activity “Bard Activity” card.
- You can also go to your Bard Activity setting in My Activity.
Turn off Bard Activity.
- Even when Bard Activity is off, your conversations will be saved with your account for up to 72 hours to allow Google to provide the service and process any feedback. This activity won’t appear in your Bard Activity.

Change Auto-delete settings

By default, your Bard activity older than 18 months is auto-deleted. You can turn off Auto-delete or change the auto-delete period to 3 or 36 months.

On your computer, go to bard.google.com.
At the top right, click Bard Activity Auto-delete.
Change how long your Bard activity is kept (3, 18, or 36 months) or select Don’t auto-delete activity.
Click Next and follow the on-screen instructions.

Learn about Bard activity

Who has access to my Bard conversations

We take your privacy seriously and we do not sell your personal information to anyone. To help Bard improve while protecting your privacy, we select a subset of conversations and use automated tools to help remove personally identifiable information. These sample conversations are reviewable by trained reviewers and kept for up to 3 years, separately from your Google Account.

Important: Do not include info that can be used to identify you or others in your Bard conversations. Review the Google Privacy Policy, Terms of Service, and Generative AI Additional Terms of Service.

How Google deletes your Bard activity from your Google Account

When you choose to delete activity manually or activity is deleted automatically, we immediately start the process of removing it from the product and our systems.

First, we aim to immediately remove it from view. Then, we begin a process designed to safely and completely delete the data from our storage systems.