Alexa is always listening: How to delete your Alexa voice recordings

(Pocket-lint) - Alexa is ever listening. Listening for that trigger connection oregon thing that sounds remotely similar it, truthful that it tin outpouring to beingness and service up an enactment oregon answer.

But did you cognize that each of those dependable interactions are recorded and saved by Alexa? Did you cognize that you tin find a afloat catalogue of the things you've said to your Amazon Echo successful your account? 

Why does Alexa prevention recordings?

Amazon says that Alexa saves recordings to marque the acquisition better, to amended the accuracy of the results. Presumably it uses these recordings to larn astir however you talk and the benignant of things that you inquire for - and does pass that if you delete them it could degrade the Alexa experience.

Alexa is lone signaling erstwhile you spot the bluish airy - but that mightiness besides mean it records things you don't mean it to.

How to delete your dependable information from Alexa 

Fortunately, deleting these dependable recordings is casual if you don't privation Alexa hanging connected to them for immoderate reason. You tin entree your information - and play recordings backmost - from the Alexa app, arsenic good arsenic delete recordings via voice. That's each the close things Alexa has heard, arsenic good arsenic different triggers marked arsenic "Text not available", which is wherever the dependable wasn't intended for Alexa, but was recorded anyway.

Here's however to find and delete dependable data:

1. Open the Alexa app.
2. Tap connected More connected the bottommost barroom and past pat Settings connected the list.
3. Tap connected Alexa Privacy.
4. Once that has opened, pat Review Voice History.
5. This past opens the past of Alexa requests - including each the recordings that you tin play back. If you privation to delete a peculiar recording, you tin find it and delete it. You tin besides prime by day range, including each history, and past delete those recordings.

If the supra method won't fto you purge it each successful 1 spell - determination is different casual mode to bash that.

1. Open a browser and caput to the Manage your Amazon Content and Devices section. You tin find it astatine http://www.amazon.com/mycd
2. On the banner click connected Privacy Settings, past Alexa Privacy.
3. Click connected Review Voice History. On this adjacent leafage you'll spot a drop-down paper for date. Select "All history".
4. Now you're looking astatine each your Alexa dependable information and there's a large bluish nexus you tin click. You'll get a pop-up warning. You'll person to corroborate that you privation to delete everything.

How to automatically delete recordings

There's besides the enactment to automatically delete your dependable recordings. This volition fto you take betwixt redeeming nothing, redeeming for 3 months, redeeming for 18 months and redeeming forever. These options tin beryllium accessed done the Alexa app successful the Alexa Privacy area, but nether the Manage Your Alexa Data section.

How to delete Alexa dependable information via dependable command

To marque it easier to negociate your recorded dependable data, you don't person to usage the Alexa app - arsenic determination are expanding options to delete those recordings via a dependable bid to Alexa. In the settings supra to negociate your dependable recordings, you'll besides find a toggle power that volition fto you delete those recordings via voice. The accepted phrases are "Alexa, delete what I conscionable said" and "Alexa, delete everything I said today", though Amazon is besides extending this to see "Alexa, delete everything I've ever said", though this relation isn't yet available.

The toggle successful the settings app is determination to guarantee that different radical can't delete each your dependable recordings without you knowing astir it. If you haven't turned it connected and you inquire Alexa to delete your dependable recordings, you'll beryllium advised however to bash that.

Writing by Chris Hall. Originally published connected 12 February 2019.