Google will save your Lens photos, Search Live recordings, and Translate audio for AI training
Google is rolling out a new privacy setting called Search Services History that saves the images, files, audio, and video you submit when you use Search. The setting includes a Save Media option, on by default for many users, that lets Google use those Lens photos, Search Live recordings, voice searches, and Translate audio to develop and improve its AI models. You stay in control: you can turn Save Media off, switch off Search Services History entirely, or delete individual items from your history.
Key Takeaways
- Double-check your privacy settings.
Google is updating its Search-related privacy settings, as the company will now save your Lens photos, audio searches, Translate interactions, and Search Live recordings under a new "Search Services History" option.
- You can turn off this option under a new 'Search Services History' setting.
by Emma Roth Jun 10, 2026, 4:18 PM UTC Link Share Gift Image: The Verge Emma Roth is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more.
- Google is making some changes to how it saves your interactions with Search.
In an email sent to users, Google says it will save the images, files, audio, and video you use to search under a new "Search Services History" setting .
- You can switch off the Search Services History setting and disable the "Save Media" option if you don't want Google to save these interactions.
Google says it will use your Search Services History to "provide, develop, and improve its services," including its AI models, as well as offer personalized suggestions and ads if you have the new "Personalized Recommendations" setting switched on.
- It will also carry over your personalization preferences when these settings roll out over the "next few months."
Double-check your privacy settings. Google is updating its Search-related privacy settings, as the company will now save your Lens photos, audio searches, Translate interactions, and Search Live recordings under a new "Search Services History" option. Tech AI News Google will save your Lens photos, Search Live recordings, and Translate audio for AI training You can turn off this option under a new 'Search Services History' setting.
Google is making some changes to how it saves your interactions with Search. In an email sent to users, Google says it will save the images, files, audio, and video you use to search under a new "Search Services History" setting . That includes the images you search for with Google Lens, recordings from its real-time Search Live tool , voice searches, and phrases spoken into Translate, according to an update on the company's website .
You can switch off the Search Services History setting and disable the "Save Media" option if you don't want Google to save these interactions. Google says it will use your Search Services History to "provide, develop, and improve its services," including its AI models, as well as offer personalized suggestions and ads if you have the new "Personalized Recommendations" setting switched on. These two settings will now be separate from Google's Web & App Activity option, which previously included search-related interactions and some toggles for saving audio recordings and visual searches.
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