Manage auto-apply recommendations

This article shows you how to manage recommendations that you’ve opted-in to apply automatically. Learn more about applying recommendations automatically

Turn on auto-apply recommendations

1. In your Google Ads account, click the Campaigns icon .
2. Click Recommendations.
3. At the upper right-hand corner, click Auto-apply.
4. You can select all the 'Maintain your ads' or 'Grow your business' bundles, or you can manually select recommendations in each category by expanding 'Maintain your ads' or 'Grow your business' drop-downs.
   • Click learn more to get more information about each recommendation.
5. Click Save for each bundle/recommendation that you selected.

Confirm opt-in

You can confirm who enroled your account, and when, through the account’s change history:

1. In your Google Ads account, click the Campaigns icon .
2. Click Recommendations.
3. At the upper right-hand corner, click Auto-apply, then select History.

• You can confirm when the recommendation was first turned on here.
• You can also confirm the user ID that opted in to the recommendations if you go to 'Change history'.

4. Filter for the date that your account was turned on to auto-apply recommendations.

Track the recommendations that you’ve turned on

After you’ve turned on automatic application of a recommendation, you’ll be able to track which recommendations are turned on in the History tab of the 'Recommendations' page. You’ll also be able to review how many times that recommendation has been applied in the past week, when it was last applied and when you first turned it on.

To receive weekly summaries of auto-apply activity by email, turn on campaign maintenance notifications in preferences. Learn more about email notification preferences

Turn off your automatically applied recommendations

You can turn off automatically applied recommendations at any time from either of these tabs:

The Manage tab

1. In your Google Ads account, click the Campaigns icon .
2. Click Recommendations.
3. At the upper right-hand corner, click Auto-apply.
4. Untick the recommendation that you want to turn off.
5. Click Save.

The History tab

1. In your Google Ads account, click the ​​​​​​Campaigns icon .
2. Click Recommendations.
3. At the upper right-hand corner, click Auto-apply and then click the History tab.
4. Select the recommendation that you want to turn off.
5. Click Disable.
6. You’ll see a red dot next to all automatically applied recommendations that have been turned off.

Related links

• About recommendations
• About applying recommendations automatically
• Optimisation score and recommendations in campaign construction