You Can Now Hide Your ChatGPT Chats (Without Deleting Them)
If you use it frequently, your ChatGPT sidebar is probably filled with old and unnecessary conversations that you barely use. There may even be some sensitive conversations that you don’t want anyone to see. (What happens in ChatGPT stays in ChatGPT.) Until now, the only way to get rid of a conversation from the sidebar was to delete it, which meant you’d have to export the chat itself to another location if you were in it interested. preservation. But now ChatGPT has added the ability to archive chats without deleting them. It’s currently available on the iPhone app and on the web, with an Android update coming soon.
How to Archive ChatGPT Chats on iPhone
First, update the ChatGPT iPhone app to the latest version and then go to the sidebar. Here, long-press on the chat, select the new Archive button from the context menu, and click the Archive button in the pop-up window to confirm. This will instantly remove the chat from the list.
You can find all your archived chats in Settings . Open the sidebar using the Menu button in the top left corner and click the Menu button with the three dots next to your name. The Settings screen will open. From here, select “Archived Chats” and voila! All your hidden chats are here. Click on a chat to view, unarchive, or delete it.
How to Archive ChatGPT Chats on the Internet
Archiving chats online works a little differently: Open the ChatGPT website and click on the chat you want to archive. When you do this, you will see a three-dot menu next to the chat name. Click on it and click the Archive Chat button to archive the current chat.
To find archived chats, click your name at the bottom of the sidebar and select Settings . Here, click Manage next to Archived Chats to see a list of all archived chats. You can click on a chat to open it and also have the option to unzip or delete the chat.
Deleting chats and disabling chat history
If you want something to be truly hidden in ChatGPT, you can delete the chat altogether. To delete a chat, use the three-dot menu button next to the chat and then click Delete .
OpenAI also has the option to disable chat history and training data . This feature needs to be enabled on a per-device basis, so you’ll have to do this separately for your iPhone and for the web. On iPhone, go to Settings > Chat History and turn off Chat History & Learning . On the web, go to Settings > Data Control to turn off the Chat History and Training option.
Once this is done, new conversations will not be used to train the ChatGPT model, and conversations will not appear in the sidebar – however, OpenAI will still keep copies of all data for 30 days to monitor for abuse. After this, the data will be automatically and irrevocably deleted.