Quick Start Guide

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status, and so on. To manage your Web History, visit google.
com/history/. You can delete or pause your Web History and still
use Google Now, but certain kinds of information, such as flight
details, won’t show up.
Similarly, Google Now can use data that you may have stored
in third-party products that you allow Google to access. For ex-
ample, your device’s synced calendar may include entries from
non-Google calendar products. If you have a synced calendar en-
try for a dentist appointment that includes the dentist’s address,
Google Now can check trafc and suggest when to leave.
Give it a try
You have a chance to turn on Google Now when you rst set up
your phone or tablet. You can turn also turn it on or off at any
time:
1. Touch the Google search bar on a Home screen.
2. Touch Get Google Now if you don’t already have it. Or, to
access the menu for the next step, perform a Google search
for anything.
3. Open Menu > Settings and turn it on (or off) from there.
To open Google Now, follow the steps for your device:
• All Nexus devices: Swipe your nger up from the bottom of
any screen.
• Nexus 5: In addition to swiping up from any screen, you can
swipe to the leftmost Home screen.
• Google Play edition devices: Touch & hold the Home button.
When you want to see more cards, touch More at the bottom of
the screen. When you don’t need them any more, swipe them out
of the way.