In short. Enable history and personalized recommendations for the documented AI Mode resume and personalization experience.
Definition: Google AI Mode uses AI Mode history to let you pick up where you left off with previous searches. Google documents history and personalized recommendations as the settings for the full experience, with personalized responses available when both are enabled.
Key facts
- Google’s AI Mode help recommends enabling history and personalized recommendations. With the relevant setting disabled, AI Mode remains available, while resuming previous searches is unavailable.
- Google says AI Mode personalization is available to people aged 18 or older when history and personalized recommendations are enabled. It uses previous searches and activity saved in Search Services History for suggestions tailored to tastes and preferences.
- Google’s Personal Intelligence help says personalized recommendations can be switched on or off at any time, and that the combined settings can provide memory of past searches and interactions over time.
- Google’s Search history help says an erased search history cannot be recovered.
Which setting handles resuming a previous AI Mode search?
The documented setup has two related controls. History is the control directly associated with returning to earlier work: Google says that you can “pick up where you left off through AI Mode history.” The same help page recommends enabling history and personalized recommendations for the best experience, then says that disabling the relevant setting removes the ability to pick up where you left off with previous searches.
Google’s instructions say that the history panel shows past searches saved in your account.
What do personalized recommendations add?
Google’s Personal Intelligence documentation says that AI Mode personalization references previous searches and activity saved in Search Services History to provide suggestions tailored to a person’s tastes and preferences. It also says that personalization can be opted in or out of by changing the personalized recommendations setting.
The same documentation describes memory of past searches and interactions over time when both history and personalized recommendations are enabled. It gives these example instructions for managing remembered details:
Remember [specific detail]
Forget [specific detail]
Google limits this personalization feature to people aged 18 or older. The memory experience described on that page is available in the United States and in English. These conditions are separate from the general ability to access AI Mode.
How can you check or remove the saved session?
Google’s AI Mode help directs you to the history panel to view saved searches. On a computer, the documented route is:
AI Mode > AI Mode history
The same instructions provide controls for deleting one AI Mode search or all AI Mode history. Google says deleted AI Mode searches may continue to appear in My Activity for some time and are automatically deleted in less than 24 hours. The Search history documentation adds that an erased search history cannot be recovered, so deletion is a separate decision from turning personalized recommendations on or off.
Related terms
- Can a PDF be added as context to a Google AI Mode question?
- Can Google AI Mode answer a question about a supplied webpage URL?
- Does deleting AI Mode history also remove the original Google search?
- Can Google AI Mode remember or forget preferences for later searches?
- Can Google AI Mode use Gmail or Photos to personalize an answer?
FAQ
Do you need both history and personalized recommendations?
Google recommends both settings together for the best AI Mode experience. History is the feature named for picking up previous searches, while personalized recommendations enables the personalization described by Google.
Can you change personalized recommendations later?
Yes. Google says that you can opt in or out of personalization at any time by changing the personalized recommendations setting.
Does deleting AI Mode history also delete every record immediately?
Google says deleted AI Mode searches may remain in My Activity for some time and are automatically deleted in less than 24 hours. It also documents a separate Search history deletion control.
Sources
- Google Search Help, "Get AI-powered responses with AI Mode in Google Search", undated
- Google Search Help, "Personal Intelligence: How AI Mode in Search personalizes responses for you", undated
- Google Search Help, "Find & erase your Google Search history", undated
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