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title: "Personality report from Google Takeout | PsycheAI"
description: "What your Google Takeout searches and YouTube history add to a personality report, how to export only My Activity, and what PsycheAI reads from it."
canonical: https://psycheai.io/personality-report-from-google-takeout
author: "Jared, founder of PsycheAI"
published: 2026-10-26
updated: 2026-10-26
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# A personality report from your Google Takeout

The short answer: your Google searches and YouTube history are the most honest record of what you are curious about, and PsycheAI can add them to your reading. Google data alone is not enough for a Psyche Card, though: it adds to your Instagram data or two or three WhatsApp chats, which show how you are with people.

## What Takeout adds

- **What you search for**: the questions you ask when no one is watching, grouped into the topics you keep coming back to.
- **What you watch on YouTube**: the channels and subjects you return to, and what you search for there.
- **Interests and values** become sharper, because searches show curiosity that never makes it into a post.

Searches say little about how you treat people, so the parts of your reading about friendships, conflict and care still come from Instagram or your chats.

## How to export only what is needed

1. Open Google Takeout, choose **Deselect all**, then tick **My Activity** only.
2. In the My Activity row, open **Multiple formats** and set Activity records to **JSON**.
3. Choose **Export once** and a .zip. Google emails a link, usually within minutes.
4. Load it in PsycheAI with your Instagram data or WhatsApp chats.

## What is sent

The Takeout file is read on your device and never uploaded. Interface noise (notifications, Lens and Assistant wake-ups) is filtered out, and what remains is reduced to your most repeated searches and viewing topics, with links, emails and phone numbers removed. You review it, and can switch it off, before anything is sent. PsycheAI keeps no copy.

## See a real result first

The [sample report](https://psycheai.io/sample-report) shows what a full reading looks like, with the evidence behind each finding.

## Questions

### Can I get a reading from Google data alone?

No. Searches show interests, not how you are with people, so PsycheAI needs your Instagram data or two or three WhatsApp chats as well.

### Does it read my location history or emails?

No. Only My Activity is read: searches and YouTube. Export just that, and nothing else is in the file.

### Is it free?

Yes. Your first Psyche Card and Psyche Report are free, with Google data added or not.

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