How to Edit Claude's Memory

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:

https://www.engadget.com/2246397/how-to-edit-claude-memory/

Since the summer of 2025, Claude has had the ability to remember past conversations. This feature - which Anthropic, like other AI labs, calls memory - allows the chatbot to personalize its responses and save you the hassle of repeating context for it. By default, memory is enabled for all Claude users, including those with free accounts, and following a recent update allows the chatbot to carry over its memory across both chats and Claude Cowork sessions. In recent weeks, Anthropic has also been rolling out more granular controls that give users the ability to edit the specific topics Claude remembers. Here's how you can edit what Claude remembers about you.

[...] Following Claude's latest memory update, Anthropic added an option called Include sensitive topics in memory. By default, Claude won't save memories related to subjects like your health, race, ethnicity, religious beliefs, politics or gender identity. By enabling the new option, it will begin recording more sensitive information. Each time Claude generates a memory related to a sensitive subject, you will see a notice. According to Anthropic, "if you're using an older version or the mobile app, you will not see this notice, and Claude won't save the sensitive topic to its memory."

The chatbot won't retroactively save past conversations, and some information, such as government ID numbers, Claude will never save, even with Include sensitive topics in memory enabled.

As mentioned above, by default Claude will automatically generate memories for all users. You can disable this feature by toggling off Generate memory from chats. From there, Anthropic gives you two options: Pause memory or Reset memory. The company warns the latter cannot be undone. "Upon re-enabling the feature, you'll start from scratch, and Claude will not have its previous memory," Anthropic notes.

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