Through a thread on X, OpenAI has announced that ChatGPT has received a memory upgrade that now allows it to recall and reference past chats with users. This will allow the chatbot to provide more personalised responses that draw from a user’s own preferences and interests that were mentioned in previous chats.
While this might seem similar to ChatGPT’s existing Saved Memories feature, the new upgrade differs as it is done automatically by OpenAI’s chatbot. Previously, users had to specifically prompt the chatbot to remember certain information. Now, their conversations, and the information provided during it, will be retained without being told to do so beforehand, with the company claiming that the results provided will be “noticeably more relevant and useful”.
Starting today, memory in ChatGPT can now reference all of your past chats to provide more personalized responses, drawing on your preferences and interests to make it even more helpful for writing, getting advice, learning, and beyond. pic.twitter.com/s9BrWl94iY
— OpenAI (@OpenAI) April 10, 2025
To change what ChatGPT knows about you, you simply have to prompt it in the chat. You can also choose to remove the memory feature altogether through the settings, which will disable the chatbot’s past-conversations reference ability by default. To have a conversation without using or affecting its stored memory, you can choose to use the temporary chat feature.
This new ChatGPT memory upgrade will be rolled out to all Plus and Pro users starting today. To know if you can use the new feature, the pop up message depicted at the top of the article will appear in the chat, notifying you. However, if you’re in the EEA, UK, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland, or Liechtenstein, you will not be receiving this new upgrade for now, with no confirmations provided by the company as to when or if the feature will be made accessible to those regions. According to OpenAI, Team, Enterprise and Edu users will receive access within a few weeks.
(Source: OpenAI)
Manisha Dharmendra contributed to this article.
