Google Takeout Guides
How to get your export from Google, open the files it sends, and read what each part of it says about you.
Before you export
Deciding whether to
Getting the export
From request to download
Opening the files
Once the ZIP arrives
By data type
What each product exports
- Google PhotosExport your library, then see it summed up
- Gmail and MBOXExport your mail and open the MBOX file
- YouTube historyEvery video watched, liked and commented
- Search historyEvery query, back as far as Google kept it
- Chrome historySynced browsing history and top sites
- All activityEvery category, and where to read each
Maps Timeline
Where you have been
Viewers for one kind of file
When you only have part of an export
Already have your export?
Open it here. It is read on your device and never uploaded.