How to clear Play Store history

Each operating system has a main store where you can download various applications for your mobile for free or paid. In the next lines we will show you how to clear play store history.

By entering the app stores, we leave a footprint, which is reflected in the download, search, purchase and download histories. Here we will tell you how to delete your history in the Google Play Store quickly and easily.

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Tutorial on how to clear Play Store history from your device or from your computer

Google Play Store, as its name suggests, is a service of the tech giant, specially designed for linking devices and email accounts.

To make the process and explanation more orderly, in this article we will explain how to clean from your computer, and your mobile devices.

How to clear Play Store history from your computer

While, from the computer we can not download applications and install them, all this search and download information has been synchronized with your Gmail account. We can access it easily from our mail or Google options.

The steps to delete your Google Play Store history from your computer are as follows:

1. Enter your Gmail account and log in with the account associated with your mobile device and therefore with Google Play.
2. Access the Google activity menu, to facilitate the work, we can do it through the link MyActivity.
3. In the central part of the screen a menu will appear with the activities of the linked accounts, highlighting “locations","YouTube"And"Web and applications”, being the last of our interest.
4. We click on “Activity on the web and applications".
5. The new screen will contain all the activity on the web and applications linked to Google Play. We will locate the Google Play Store icon.
6. By clicking a new screen dedicated solely to Google Play will be displayed and we will find a cascade button that says “Delete".
7. When we click on it, a series of options will appear, allowing us to decide from where we will delete the history of the Play Store.
8. We will click on the option that fits what we want and follow the indicated steps.
9. A pop-up window will tell us that the deletion has been completed successfully and will give us some privacy tips.

In case you do not want anything to be saved in your history, you can activate the option “Automatic deletion”. You can change this option whenever you want, following the same procedure.

How to clear the history of installed applications from your mobile device

This process is much more direct and faster from the mobile. Here are the steps you must follow to delete the history of applications in the Play Store:

1. On your smartphone, open the Google Play Store app, which comes pre-installed on your device.
2. Once inside, click on your profile picture, which you will find in the upper right corner of the screen.
3. We will look for the option "Manage device and app", where we will press to go to the next screen.
4. The default tab that will open is the "General description", where we can see not only the available space, pending updates and qualify the installed elements.
5. Click on the “Manage” option, located at the top.
6. At the top of the screen, we will find a drop-down button with the name "Installed", we click on it to change to "Not Installed". This will change the list to those applications that we once searched for or installed at another time.
7. To delete them from our history it is necessary to mark the ones we want to delete, for this we will use the box to the right of the name of each one.
8. By activating the check in at least one of the apps in the list, a couple of new options will be available at the top of the screen, download and delete.
9. When you click on the delete option, a pop-up message will appear, indicating if we really want to delete it from our history.
10. We click on the “Delete” option and it will disappear from our list.

This work may be somewhat tedious, however, it is not complex at all.

How to clear the search history of the device

This is a very practical option, completely eliminating searches performed only from the current device. The steps to follow are:

1. Enter the Google Play Store app.
2. Click on your profile image.
3. Access the option "Configuration” that you will find in the menu that was displayed.
4. Make a soft click on the option “General”, this will allow a new menu to open with new options.
5. In the new options we will click on “Account and device preference".
6. We will move to the bottom, reaching the area that says "History".
7. We will click on “Clear device search history".
8. A pop-up window will ask us to confirm this operation. To confirm we will click on the option “Delete history".

It is important to note that once deleted, the previous searches made on other devices will continue to be valid, since only the history of the current device will be deleted.