Windows 10: Turn On or Off Cortana Browsing History Permissions in Windows 10

How to: Turn On or Off Cortana Browsing History Permissions in Windows 10

Turn On or Off Cortana Using Your Microsoft Edge Browsing History in Windows 10


Cortana is your cloud-based personal assistant that works across your devices and other Microsoft services. Depending on the capabilities of your device and the version of Cortana youre using, Cortana can provide a range of features, some of which are personalized. Cortana on Windows is available in certain regions and languages. If Cortana isnt available for your Windows device, you can still search for files on your device in the search box on the taskbar. Cortana is also available on other platforms, such as Android and iOS, in select markets.

Cortana works best when you sign in and let her use data from your device, other Microsoft services, and third-party services you choose to connect. To provide you with personalized experiences, Cortana learns from certain data about you, such as your searches, calendar, contacts, and location. Youre in control of how much data you share. If you choose not to sign into Cortana on Windows, you can still chat with Cortana and use her to help you search the web, documents stored in Microsoft services like OneDrive, and your Windows device. See the section about Windows Search in the Privacy Statement for more information. If you dont sign in, or you choose to sign out, your experiences will be more limited and they wont be personalized with your Cortana data. On iOS and Android devices, Cortana only works when you sign in.

You can manage permissions for what Cortana can see and use for your account in Windows 10.

If you allow Cortana to use your browsing history, Microsoft will collect your Microsoft Edge search queries and full browsing history, associated with a user ID. Cortana will use this data to learn about you and provide you with timely and intelligent answers and proactice personalized suggestions, or to complete web tasks for you. Cortana won't collect information about sites you visit in InPrivate tabs.

For more information, see:

• Cortana, Search, and privacy: FAQ - Microsoft Windows
  
• Microsoft Privacy Statement - Microsoft privacy

This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off Cortana using your browsing history for personalized suggestions and help pick where you left off on Microsoft Edge websites in Windows 10.

*note You will need to sign in to Cortana with your Microsoft account to be able to turn on allowing Cortana to use your browsing history in Microsoft Edge.



Here's How:

1. Open Settings, and click/tap on the Cortana icon.

2. Click/tap on Permissions on the left side, and click/tap on the Manage the information Cortana can access from this device link under Permissions on the right side. (see screenshot below)



3. Turn On or Off (default) Browsing history for what you want. (see screenshot below)



4. When finished, you can close Settings if you like.


That's it,
Shawn


Related Tutorials

• How to Sign in or Sign out of Cortana in Windows 10
• How to Enable or Disable Cortana in Windows 10
• How to Turn On or Off Cortana in Microsoft Edge in Windows 10
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• Turn On or Off Cortana Contacts, Email, Calendar, and Communication Permissions in Windows 10
• How to Clear Your Personal Data and Info from Cortana

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browsing history

Hi,

About your concern, you delete browsing history by following the steps below:

• Open your browser then tap the ellipsis (...).
• Select Settings then look for "Clear
  browsing data"
• Tap Choose what to
  clear then mark browsing history.

Let us know if you need further assistance.

 

Windows 10 IE 11 browsing history

Already read and tried NO HELP< but thank you!!

 

Cortana trying to phone home via SearchUI.exe


My understanding of Contana.

Contana is a web base program. I works from a Cloud. Therefore Contana has to call home to work fully.

I personally turn off Contana.

Their are a boat load of Contana options it the Tutorials.

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• How to Turn On or Off Cortana Personalization in Windows 10
  
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• How to Clear Your Personal Data and Info from Cortana
  
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• How to Connect Cortana to Gmail Account in Windows 10
  

Jack

 

Clearing Cortana's Pick Up Where You Left Off History?...

Hi,

You can follow the steps given below to clear Cortana's search history on your computer:

• Click Start.
• Go to Settings.
• Click Privacy.
• On the left side of the window, look for Speech, inking & typing.
• Click Stop getting to know me.
• You will get a popup notification that will clear suggestions, just click
  Turn off.
• If you wish to make Cortana record again suggestions for you moving forward after clearing the history, you can turn it on again by clicking
  Get to know me.

Kindly give us feedback if this helped you with your concern.

 

Windows 10 Tweaks

Privacy tweaks...

• Turn Cortana Off. Bring up the Start menu and start typing. Click on the notebook icon in the left sidebar and choose Settings. From there, you can turn off Cortana.
• Search online and include web results. When you turn off Cortana, you’ll see this option appear. You can turn it off if you’d rather not get web search suggestions from the Start menu, which log your typing and send it back to Microsoft so you can get live-updating predictions, just like you do on Google.com or in Chrome and Firefox.
• Getting to Know You. In Settings > Privacy > Speech, Inking, & Typing, you’ll find a feature called “Getting to Know You”. This is probably the most sweeping privacy setting on the system, and even after turning off Cortana, you’ll have to disable this setting. Just click the “Stop Getting to Know Me” button to turn it off.
• Cloud Info. Turning off Getting to Know You removes info from your device, but you’ll have to remove it from the cloud separately. In that same window, click “Go to Bing and manage personal info for all your devices” to clear the Getting to Know You Data from your Microsoft account.

• If you head to Settings > Privacy > Feedback & Diagnostics, you’ll see two settings:

• Feedback frequency: Windows will occasionally ask you for feedback so you can send Microsoft your thoughts on Windows 10. If you’d rather it not bug you with such things, you can change it to Never.
• Diagnostic and usage data: This feature can send a lot of data back to Microsoft, including how often you use certain apps, which apps you use most often, and memory snapshots (which can inadvertently include parts of a document you’re working on if something crashes). You can change this to Full, Enhanced, or Basic. You can read more about what each of these to here.

Microsoft doesn’t let you turn off diagnostics completely, except on Enterprise versions of Windows. The Basic setting, they say, is data that is “vital to the operation of Windows”, including Windows Update and malicious software protection.


some may be duplicated. I found this info on Lifehacker, if anyone wants the full article.