The carrier sees which domains your phone connects to, not what you searched. That distinction matters: a mobile bill or carrier portal can show "google.com" and "youtube.com", never the query you typed — searches travel inside an encrypted HTTPS session the carrier cannot read.
What is actually visible on cellular data:
- DNS and connection metadata — domain names, timestamps, volume. Enough to know you used Google, not enough to know what you asked it.
- SNI in TLS — the hostname, which is the same domain-level detail. Encrypted Client Hello closes even that on modern sites.
- Nothing of the query itself. Unless you use a plain-HTTP search engine, which almost nobody does.
What people actually see on a "wifi bill" is the router's DNS log or a parental-control app on the router — again, domains only. A school or employer network with a TLS-inspecting proxy can see more, because it decrypts traffic; a carrier does not do that.
So who can read your searches? Google or Bing, tied to your account if you are signed in, plus anyone with access to that account's My Activity page.
Where our app fits. Ultimate Phone Spy runs on Android 4.0+, Windows and macOS and reports browser activity from the device itself (features) — which is why it can show more than a carrier log. It requires installation on the device, with the user's knowledge.