Allow personal results on your speakers and displays

Google smart speakers and displays can be shared with multiple people. For any shared device, turn on personal results to allow your voice assistant to read or show specific results. For example, your voice assistant may show:

• Results from your Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Photos
• Playlists you've created and marked as "Private" on YouTube
• YouTube Music personal playlists, liked songs, uploads, or library content

Important: The personal results setting doesn’t control voice assistant features provided by third party apps like Spotify or Pandora.

Learn more about what happens when you turn on personal results at Google privacy policy.

Turn personal results on or off

Important: Some personal results are only available in certain languages and countries.

Set up personal results in your home

Important: If you have personal results and Voice Match turned on and then later turn off Voice Match, personal results also turn off automatically. You can always turn personal results back on without Voice Match.

When you set up personal results, you can turn this on for all current and future devices in your home. You can also turn off personal results for a specific device at any time.

1. Open the Google Home app .
2. At the top right, tap your Profile picture or Initial.
3. Tap Home settings  Google Assistant or Gemini for Home voice assistant Personal results.
4. Edit settings for the devices in your home.

Tip: You can also set up personal results when you set up Voice Match.

Turn off personal results in your home

1. Open the Google Home app .
2. At the top right, tap your Profile picture or Initial.
3. Tap Home settings  Google Assistant or Gemini for Home voice assistant Personal results.
4. Tap Turn off personal results in this home.

Turn personal results on or off for a device

Important: Before you can turn on Personal results for a device, you must turn on Personal results for the home.

1. Open the Google Home app .
2. At the top right, tap your Profile picture or Initial.
3. Tap Home settings  Google Assistant or Gemini for Home voice assistant Personal results.
4. Tap the name of your device.
   • To turn on personal results: Check the box next to the device name.
   • To turn off personal results: Uncheck the box next to the device name.

Hide personal results on a smart display

When you turn on Personal results, upcoming calendar events and YouTube video recommendations appear on your smart display. Anyone near the device can find or act on them.

To stop personal results on the home screen and as notifications:

1. Open the Google Home app .
2. Tap Home All devices , then touch and hold your smart display.
3. Tap Settings Recognition & sharing Recognition & Personalization.
4. Under "How personal results appear", select Never show proactively.

Learn how personal results work with other settings

Google Photos

Personal results on your Smart Display don't control whether you can show your photos in ambient mode.

Voice Match

If Voice Match is turned on, voice assistant won't respond with your personal results to a voice it doesn’t recognize as yours. Learn how to use Voice Match and personal results.