How to Delete Your Amazon Alexa Voice History
In this day and age, security of information and privacy are becoming increasingly rare and in demand.
Owners of Amazon products, like the Echo speaker, will be conscious of the fact that Alexa can potentially pose a significant threat to one’s privacy. This makes learning how to delete recording on Alexa a necessity.
It’s no secret that Amazon routinely keeps records of all Alexa voice recordings, which need to be manually deleted if the user has no need of them. So, without any further ado, it’s time to address the question at the heart of the matter; how do you delete activity on Alexa app?
How do I delete my voice history on Alexa?
In the past, it used to be a little difficult to execute the exact procedure for managing and clearing one’s voice recording history on Alexa. However, after recent updates the process has become much more intuitive and streamlined.
Before starting to understand how to clear your Alexa history, it would be much more convenient to activate the feature to remove recordings through voice commands. It is possible to delete the very last voice recording by issuing the voice command “Alexa, delete what I just said.” However, for more flexibility in deleting voice history, one should go to the Alexa app and simply follow these steps:
1. Open Settings
2. Go to Alexa Account -> Alexa Privacy -> Review Voice History
3. Toggle on ‘Enable Detection by Voice’
How to delete my voice history on Alexa?
It’s possible to use simple voice commands to conveniently delete one’s voice history with a decent amount of variation in approach.
Deleting voice history for the day
In order to delete all voice recordings for the day, the user simply needs to give the voice command: “Alexa, delete everything I said today”. This command will cause Alexa to delete all voice recordings from the start of that day, 12 am, till the point in time the voice command was issued.
So, it could be beneficial to make this purging of data part of one’s daily routine; for example, doing so after returning from college or work. Regular removal of data in this manner ensures any potentially sensitive recorded data is not compromised.
Deleting specific recordings from voice history
Some people might be interested in preserving certain voice recordings or commands issued throughout the day, in which case a total deletion of daily data isn’t feasible. Luckily, there is a workaround for this issue as well.
Open the Alexa app and access the menu from the top left corner of the screen and go to Settings -> Alexa Account -> History. A whole list of interactions and their associated transcripts will show up.
Tapping on any of these will provide a number of options, including playing the recording to hear its content as well as checking the date and time the file in question was recorded. The option of interest here will be the ‘Delete voice recording’ command which can be tapped to permanently erase the selected voice recording.
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How do I delete all Amazon Echo history
Those interested in having a clean slate and removing all voice recording data in one go are in luck since Amazon has provided an easy way to do so. The method to do this has been outlined in a concise manner below:
1. Open Amazon’s Content and Devices page
2. Log in using your account details
3. Go to Your Devices
4. Select the Alexa device whose history you wish to wipe and select Manage Voice Recordings
5. Choose the option to delete all voice recordings from the selected device
In this manner, one will have learnt how to delete all Alexa history all at once.
How do I disable Alexa voice recordings?
Some users might find it much simpler to completely deactivate Alexa voice recordings entirely. This approach can be followed by following these simple steps:
1. Open Settings
2. Go to Alexa Account -> Alexa Privacy
3. Tap on ‘Manage how your data improves Alexa’
4. Toggle off the ‘Help Improve Amazon Services and Develop New Features’ option
5. Toggle off the ‘Use Messages to Improve Transcriptions’ option
That’s all there is to it. After one follows these steps voice recordings will be completely disabled on Alexa.
How do you delete messages on Alexa app?
At one point, a large number of Alexa users can find the number of messages on their device to be getting out of hand. Thankfully, it is quite easy to delete messages on the Alexa app. The app has a conversations menu very similar to the cell phone’s native messaging app.
In order to delete redundant or unimportant messages from the app, just do the following:
1. Open the Alexa app and tap on the small speech bubble at the bottom of the screen
2. A list of all ongoing conversations will appear. Select the one to delete
3. Swipe left on the conversation to delete
4. A red ‘Remove’ button will appear. Tap on it to delete all messages of the conversation
Keep in mind that all messages and the conversation in question are permanently deleted and cannot be recovered. One has to simply repeat the above procedure for all other messages to delete from the Alexa app.
How to delete Alexa notifications
Constant notifications from Alexa can prove to be a nuisance for many people and for good reason too. Deleting and stopping further notifications from Alexa can be done by completing a series of steps:
1. Go to the Alexa app and open Settings
2. Tap on Notifications
3. Select a feature to access its notification options
4. Tap and use the slider to toggle notifications ‘on’ or ‘off’
An additional tip is that although sound for notifications is turned on by default, it is possible to make them silent if that is the sort of customization one requires:
1. Open the Alexa app
2. Select the Devices icon
3. Tap on Sounds -> Notifications
4. Select Notifications and then tap on None to turn off notification sounds
