Don’t Know How to Delete Transaction History in Google Pay- Here’s the Secret

Are you among the people who have given up finding a way to delete their Google Pay transaction history? Well not to worry, we are here to help you.

Google Pay provides a very convenient way to send and receive money between any two people with the application installed in their mobiles. Every time you make a money transaction through Google Pay, it stores the history of the transaction made. The transaction history consists of details such as UPI transaction ID, UPI IDs of sender and receiver along with a Google transaction ID. These transactions appear under Show my transaction section in the app.

Although you can see the transaction history easily, the thing is that there seems to appear a problem in deleting the history. Apparently there is no option available in the Google Pay application to delete transaction history.

Fortunately, there is a way to delete transaction history in Google Pay. In this article we will discuss where to find the transaction history and how to delete it. Keep reading to learn how.

Check Google Pay Transaction History

When you open the Google Pay app, the transaction history does not appear anywhere on the screen. Many people complain about their Google pay transaction history not showing. It’s just that the option to view Google Pay transaction history is present in the app only but lies at the bottom of screen.

• Open your device and open Google Pay app.
• Scroll down to the bottom of the screen.
• You will find Show transaction history option.
• Tap the > right to it to check G Pay transaction history.
• Here you can see both sent and received amount history arranged by date of transaction.
• Keep scrolling downwards to see your complete G Pay transaction history.

Quick Ways Delete Google Pay Transaction History in 2023

Google Pay saves the information about every transaction made through this application. There is also no option available for deleting transaction history of Google Pay. But there is an alternate method to delete G Pay transaction history and that is from Google Chrome. Once you have followed the instructions given below, your payments transactions will be deleted from your Google Account and will no longer show in Google Pay.

Step 1: Open your device and launch Google Chrome.

Step 2: Go to “www.google.com” and locate Google Account.

Step 3: Log in to your account using Google credentials.

Step 4: Click on options sign (three horizontal lines) on the top left corner.

Step 5: Select ‘Data and Privacy’ and go to ‘History Settings’.

Step 6: Click on ‘Web and App Activity’ and then go to Manage All web & app activity.

Step 7: Tap on option sign (three vertical lines) on the search bar.

Step 8: Select ‘Other Google Activity’ and go to Google Pay experience.

Step 9: Under Google Pay experience, tap ‘Manage Activity’.

Step 10: Click on Delete drop down arrow to select the part of transaction you want to delete from history.

Step 11: Select from “last hour”, “last day”, “custom range” and “all time” as per your choice.

Step 12: Click on Delete to proceed with transaction history deletion.

As per the option selected, transaction history for the selected time period will be deleted after that. Usually, it takes around 12 hours to reflect the status of deleted history.

Method to delete Google Pay transaction history in mobile

It is possible to delete transaction history of Google Pay through mobile but not through the G Pay app. Apparently, Google Pay does not provide the option history deletion. The steps to delete Google Pay transaction history in mobile are same as above.

Just open Google chrome browser in your mobile device and follows the above-mentioned steps. Similar to above, it will take approximately 12 hours to refresh the status of transaction history.

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Ways to Delete Google Pay Account

The article above discussed the way to delete transaction history of G Pay. But deleting transaction history is not enough if you are planning to never use Google Pay and in this condition you must delete your Google Pay account.

Steps to Close Google Pay Account

Follow the steps given below to close your Google Pay account, if you do not want to use Google Pay anymore:

• Open your mobile and enter the Google Pay app.
• You will be asked to provide your Google pin to open the app.
• Once you enter the app, tap your profile photo at the top right corner.
• Click on Close account button to delete your account.
• Uninstall the app from your phone.

Once the account closes, Google Pay de-links all saved bank accounts from Google Pay app automatically.