Archive · 20 Aug 2025
How to Delete Your ChatGPT History for Privacy
ChatGPT saves your conversations, but you can delete them to protect your privacy.
On your phone, open the app, go to settings, and clear your chat history.
On your computer, go to the website, find settings, and delete all chats.
Keep in mind that while your chat history is deleted, OpenAI might keep some data for up to 30 days.
You can also stop your chats from being used to train the AI.
Users can delete their ChatGPT chat history on both mobile and web platforms.
On mobile, users can delete chats via the app's menu and data controls.
On the web, users can delete chats through the settings menu.
OpenAI's help center states that chats are scheduled for permanent deletion within 30 days.
Users can opt out of having their data used for model training.
- Who
- ChatGPT users.
- What
- Instructions on how to delete ChatGPT chat history.
- When
- Not specified.
- Where
- On the ChatGPT app and website.
- Why
- To protect user privacy.
User Concerns
OpenAI's perspective
Data control
User Concerns
Users want to control their data.
OpenAI's perspective
OpenAI temporarily retains data for various reasons
- Platform
- Mobile app and Web
- Action
- Deleting chat history
- Method
- Data Controls and Settings
- Data Retention
- Chats scheduled for deletion within 30 days.
- Additional Feature
- Option to turn off chat history & training