Cortana is a voice-controlled virtual assistant available on Microsoft Windows Phone 8.1, Compatible with Siri. Siri is the intelligent assistant who is enabled on the Apple devices. The Microsoft’s Cortana using the Bing search engine and data stored programs on the user’s smartphone to build personalized recommendations.
According to the Microsoft, users will be capable of launching the Cortana from the start screen option, where the female virtual assistant voice will recommend tasks, and the owner might want to carry out the location-based settings and past behavior. Users can also inculcate Cortana to find the best information, schedule appointments, set notifications or remainders and use every latest feature of applications which is already installed on the device.
Cortana can do various other things for you including basic computer operations, work on the lock screen, run custom tasks, and many more. It can synchronize on the back settings across the computers. If you never tried the Cortana, then try it right away, by sign-in with your Microsoft account for the best experience across the devices.
Now if you already used Cortana, then it is easy for you to understand that how to delete or clear the Search History and remove and delete all Personal Data from Cortana on Windows 10. The procedure is mentioning below, if you trouble with any issue or unable to remove the personal data, then dial the toll-free number of Microsoft customer support or visit Office.com/Setup to get instant support.
Steps to Delete or Remove all Personal Data from Cortana on Windows 10
Windows 10 offers various options for privacy purposes by which you can easily configure and keep your privacy safe and secure. when you are signed in with your Microsoft Account in Microsoft, it can gather data like your search queries, calendar events, contacts, and location
First, you need to do is Sign-out from Cortana. So, that no extra data collection will take place from your system. Cortana always collects data on your computer and also syncs back to the cloud. So we will need to delete data from two places. Here the complete stepwise guide is provided only to make your steps easy and simple. The steps are mentioning below:-
- First, Sign-out from the Cortana account.
- Then, click on the search bar button.
- Click on the Switch to Notebook option.
- Then, click on your profile which consists of your Microsoft Account registered email
- Now, click again on your profile., a pop-up window appears on the screen for listing your account.
- Then again, Sign-out from the account.
- Click to Turn off speech services and type suggestions in the suggestion box.
- Then, click on the Open Settings option.
- Click on the Privacy button.
- Click on the Speech, inking, & typing option.
- On the right side of the screen, press the button Turn off speech services and typing suggestions option.
- Then click on the Re-confirm to turn it off finally.
When you turn off the Cortana, then you will not be able to speak to Cortana after turning off the Cortana your typing, inking, and user dictionary will automatically clear.
Clear Cortana data on the PC
- Click to open the Settings app option.
- Click on the Cortana option.
- Then, click on the Permissions and History option.
- Click on the My Device history button to clear history.
- Click on the Delete & Remove option, to remove all personal data from Cortana on from Cloud folder.
- The next step to is to get rid of all stored data from the cloud. It will make sure the data is not used by Microsoft or any third party.
- Open the Settings app > Cortana > Permissions and History.
- To open the Privacy Portal for your data stored online, click on the link which says Change what Cortana knows about me in the cloud on the right.
- This will open a new page in Cortana box, and at the bottom of the page in the Cortana, hit the clear button.
- This takes care of removal of all your data with Cortana. When you sign-in again, the data collection will start instantly.
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