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Use At a Glance on your Pixel devices

You can find details like upcoming events, tasks and weather info from the home or lock screen with At a Glance on your Pixel devices.

Use At a Glance on Pixel 3 and up

Important: This feature is only available on Pixel 3 and later devices. The full At a Glance experience is available on Pixel devices that run on Android version 12 and up. Some features aren't available in all languages or countries.

On your lock screen, home screen and always-on display, you can find info and updates, like:

  • Upcoming events and tasks
  • Weather info and severe weather warnings
  • Tickets to your events

Turn At a Glance on or off

By default, At a Glance is automatically on for Pixel 3 and later devices. The date still displays while At a Glance is off. Turning off At a Glance turns off all cards. You can customise your At a Glance if you want to turn off specific updates:

  1. At the top of your home screen, touch and hold At a Glance.
  2. Tap Customise and then At a Glance settings Settings.
  3. Tap Turn on or Turn off.

Turn At a Glance features on or off

Important:

  • This feature is available on Pixel 3 and later devices.
  • The full At a Glance experience is available on Pixel devices that run on Android version 12 and up. Some features aren't available in all languages or regions.
  • This feature isn't available on iOS devices such as iPhones, iPads and Apple watches.

To turn on or off individual features or content:

  1. At the top of your home screen, touch and hold At a Glance.
  2. Tap Customise and then At a Glance settings Settings.
  3. Under 'Features', select a topic or category to turn it on or off.
  4. For more topics or categories, scroll to the bottom and tap See more features.

Customise At a Glance information

By default, At a Glance automatically displays content on your lock screen. In some cases, it can show important content from app notifications, like calendar events or updates.

You can turn off sensitive content or get updates on your lock screen. Learn how to control your notifications.

To update the sensitive content setting:

  1. At the top of your home screen, touch and hold At a Glance.
  2. Tap Customise and then At a Glance settings Settings.
  3. Under 'Manage personalisation', tap Sensitive content on lock screen.
  4. Under 'Privacy', turn sensitive notifications on or off.

Tip: You can turn off sensitive work profile notifications for At a Glance content from your work profile.

About your information in At a Glance

To provide information that matters most to you, Google uses data from your device and activity. To control what data is available in At a Glance:

  1. At the top of your home screen, touch and hold At a Glance.
  2. Tap Customise and then At a Glance settings Settings.
  3. Under 'Manage personalisation', turn settings on or off.

Control At a Glance information

There are several ways to control the information in At a Glance.

Control data from apps

For info such as updates for calendar events, At a Glance uses data from apps on your device.

Use data from your Google Account

For most At a Glance features, your phone or tablet need access to your Google activity.

Web & App Activity

Your Web & App Activity setting helps At a Glance show you information like "time to leave" tasks. Learn how to manage your Web & App Activity.

App info

When you turn on "Personalise using app data", At a Glance gets app information from your devices to give you some tasks and notifications. Learn how to manage your device's app info.

Gmail smart feature controls

With smart feature controls, At a Glance can show you information directly from your email, like boarding passes and event reservations. Learn how to use smart feature controls.

Location information

Your location information settings allow At a Glance to help you receive useful information based on your current location. For example, it can alert you when there's an earthquake nearby or severe weather alerts in your area. For some features, At a Glance requires access to your precise location. Learn how to manage your location settings.

If you turn on Location History, you can also receive information about locations that you've visited. Learn how to manage your Location History.

You can get real-time traffic info in At a Glance while you travel when you set your home and work addresses. Learn to set your home, work and other locations.

Personal results

You can find personal results with At a Glance. Learn how to turn off personal results.

Access to calendars

In At a Glance, you can get relevant info about upcoming calendar events, like your next meeting. You can get some of these events from app notifications and the device calendar with At a Glance.

If you don't want At a Glance to show events from the device calendar, remove calendar permissions from the Google app:

  1. On your Android device, open your Settings app.
  2. Tap Apps and then Google and then Permissions and then Calendar.
  3. Select Don’t allow.

Tip: Some calendar events will come to At a Glance via app notifications. You can control notification data in At a Glance as described in the Notification section above.

Access to Google Wallet

In At a Glance, you can get access to upcoming event passes stored in Google Wallet.

If you don't want At a Glance to show passes from Google Wallet, you can remove sharing permissions from Google Wallet:

  1. On your Android device, open Google Wallet.
  2. Tap the profile icon and then Your data in Wallet and then Manage passes data.
  3. Turn off Use passes across Google.

Learn how to manage passes in Google Wallet.

Notifications from installed apps

App notifications can be used for features such as calendar events. If you don't want At a Glance to use app notifications, you can change this in your device's settings.

To change use app notifications:

  1. On your Android device, open your Settings app.
  2. Scroll to and tap Notifications and then Device and app notifications and then Android System Intelligence.

Nearby devices

For Nearby devices, At a Glance can show you relevant information, like battery, when you connect your phone to Bluetooth headphones.

To allow At a Glance to find and connect to your nearby devices:

  1. On your Android device, open your Settings app.
  2. Scroll and tap Privacy and then Permission manager and then Nearby devices.

Turn off personal results

If you don’t want to receive personalised content from Google Assistant, you can turn off personal results.

Some potentially sensitive content can still show in At a Glance, even if you’ve turned off personal results from Google Assistant. You can manage your content in At a Glance through your device settings.

To manage your content in At a Glance:

  1. Near the top of your home screen, press and hold At a Glance.
  2. Tap Customise and then At a Glance settings Settings.

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