How To Review And Delete Your Alexa History

Amazon’s Alexa is intended to be a helpful digital home assistant: setting timers, telling you the weather, and buying items off Amazon for you, among other things.

- Chloe Albanesius

Recently, however, Bloomberg reported that Amazon has thousands of employees listening to Alexa voice recordings every day. And last year, a family in Portland, Oregon had their conversation recorded by Alexa and sent to a random contact. Luckily, the discussion was innocuous; hardwood floors were on the agenda. But knowing Alexa might glitch and let everyone in on the inane things you ask her is unnerving.

Alexa records everything you say; all of your commands are stored on your Alexa account. Want to review what you’ve asked Alexa, delete the more embarrassing inquiries, and tell Amazon to stop listening to your recordings? Here’s how.

‘ALEXA, DELETE EVERYTHING I SAID TODAY’

You can now delete Alexa recordings by voice. Once enabled, just say: “Alexa, delete everything I said today” or “Alexa, delete what I just said.”