Change your privacy and other settings

You can choose whether or not to sign in to games automatically, make your game activity public, or change other settings.

Sign in to games automatically

You can sign in to supported games automatically to save your progress and earn achievements. You'll be signed in to your current games and any future games that you play.

On an Android phone or tablet

On Android TV

Tip: If you want to sign in to a different Google Account for a game, sign out of that game and sign back in.

Change who may view your game activity

Choose who can view your profile, achievements, leaderboards, and games played.

On an Android phone or tablet

On Android TV

Tip: When you play a game with your gamer name, the game developer receives information about your activity and purchases in the game. Game developers use this info to provide and improve their games. To learn more about how developers use this info, check the game developer's privacy policy.

Let people find your gamer profile using your email address

You can let other players find your gamer profile by searching for it with your email address.

On an Android phone or tablet

On Android TV

Change when games can access your friends list

How games may access and use your friends list

When you give a game access to your friends list, you share a list of the gamer name in your friends list with the game. This list does not include your friends' email addresses. Games can use this info to let you see and play with friends easily, subject to their privacy policies, which you may find in the games and on the Play Store pages for the games.

Additionally, for each game's use of the friends list, Google Play Games requires each game's developer to agree:

  • To use this friends list only for the purpose of displaying a friends list to you within the game or enabling related friends functionality visible to the end user, and not for any other purpose, like advertising.
  • Not to store or retain this friends list for more than 30 days. After 30 days, the game is required to delete or refresh the friends list.
  • Not to make this friends list available to third parties, except as necessary to comply with applicable law.

Change notification settings for your games

Settings can vary by device. For your device's details, contact your device manufacturer.

Option 1: In your Settings app

  1. Open your device's Settings app.
  2. Tap Apps & notificationsand then Notifications.
  3. Under "Recently sent," see apps that recently sent you notifications.
    • You can turn off all notifications for a listed app.
    • To pick specific categories of notifications, tap the app's name.
    • To see more apps, tap See all from last 7 days. To sort byMost recent orMost frequent, tap them.

If you don't see "Recently sent," you're using an older Android version. Instead, tap App notifications and tap an app. You can turn notifications, notification dots, and notification categories on or off. If an app has categories, you can tap a category for more options.

Option 2: On a notification

Option 3: In the certain app

Many apps let you control notifications from a settings menu in the app. For example, an app could have a setting to choose the sound that app's notifications make.

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