Has it ever happened to you that you talked to a friend about buying a new car or mentioned about buying a property and you started getting ads related to it on your smartphone? Most Android users face this kind of problem. This happens because your smartphone keeps listening to everything you say. If you do not make this setting in your smartphone, then your personal information will be known to Google and many of your secrets may be exposed.
All Android smartphones used all over the world work on Google Account. Without creating a Google account, you will not be able to download any app on your Android smartphone and use many of its services. In such a situation, while creating a Google account, you give it many such permissions, due to which every small and big information of yours reaches Google and then Google earns money by promoting advertisements on the basis of that.
Do these settings in the phone immediately
- If you do not want Google to listen to you, then you will have to make a small setting in your smartphone.
- First of all go to the settings of your Android smartphone.
- After this, scroll down and tap on Google’s settings.
- On the next page you will see your Google profile.
- You have to tap on Manage Your Google Account given on this page.
- Then you have to go to the Data & Privacy section.
Google Account Settings
- On this page you will get the option of Web & App Activity. Tap on it and go to the next page.
- Here you will see the option of Include Audio and Video activity in Subsettings.
- Remove the tick on this and accept Google’s Term of Service.
In this way, you deny Google access to your smartphone’s microphone, after which Google will not record any voice coming from your smartphone’s microphone and you will not see ads related to spoken words.