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Google will save your Lens photos, Search Live recordings, and Translate audio for AI training

The Verge · Jun 10, 2026, 4:18 PM · Also reported by 1 other source

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, d … Read the full story at The Verge.

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