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Meta AI: your data, fixed

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Meta keeps your chats and memories and uses them to improve its AI, with no clear training opt-out.

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Last checked 24 October 2026
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    What they keep

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    1. 1.Your chats, prompts, images and videos, shown in History until you delete them.
    2. 2.Memories: details you share, such as where you live, your birthday or food preferences. In the Meta AI app you can see them under Settings > Memory.
    3. 3.Profile details such as your age and gender, and interests based on your activity across Meta's apps, used to personalize replies.
    4. 4.On Meta AI glasses, text transcripts and recordings of your voice, stored by default.
    5. 5.Your prompts, shared messages and feedback, which Meta may review by machine or by people.

    Meta's pages give no retention period for text chats. Memory across chats was first described for one-to-one chats on WhatsApp and Messenger in the US and Canada.

    Scorecard · Says how long chats are kept after you delete themNo

    Meta's page does not state how long Meta AI chats are kept after you delete them.

    Meta's own pagesChecked 24 October 2026
  2. 2

    Opt out of training

    Not found

    Not found on Meta's pages.

    See the Scorecard card →

    Meta's pages say your prompts, the messages you share with Meta AI and your feedback may be used to improve its AI, but we found no setting to stop this in the Meta AI app, WhatsApp or Messenger. Only people in the EU are offered an objection form, and only Meta's separate Muse agent has a training switch.

    Scorecard · You can stop your chats training its modelsNo

    Meta's newsroom page says information people share with its AI features is used to improve its products, and a November 2025 note adds that Meta may train its AIs on messages people share with them; it names no setting to stop this.

    Meta's own pagesChecked 24 October 2026
  3. 3

    Private mode

    Offered
    1. 1.Open the Meta AI app.
    2. 2.Open the menu.
    3. 3.Choose Incognito chat.
    4. 4.Type your question in the box at the bottom.
    5. 5.When you leave the chat, it is not saved and does not appear in your history.

    Incognito Chat is also on WhatsApp, but it is still rolling out and only in some countries and languages. Meta does not say whether incognito chats are used for training.

    Scorecard · A chat mode that is not saved and not used for trainingPartly

    Meta says Incognito Chat on WhatsApp and the Meta AI app is a temporary conversation that is not saved and that Meta cannot read; the page does not say whether it is used for training.

    Meta's own pagesChecked 24 October 2026
  4. 4

    Export your data

    Offered
    1. 1.In the Meta AI app, open the Menu, then Settings.
    2. 2.Go to Data & privacy > Manage your information.
    3. 3.Choose to export your information, to your device or to another service.
    4. 4.Pick the data, date range, format (HTML or JSON) and media quality you want.
    5. 5.When the file is ready, download it from Export your information in Accounts Center within 4 days.
    6. 6.On WhatsApp, type /download-all-ai-info in a one-to-one chat with Meta AI to get a link.

    The export covers the Meta AI app, meta.ai, the Vibes app and Meta AI glasses. It does not include anything you already deleted. Exports to another service can take up to 30 days.

    Scorecard · You can export all your chats yourselfPartly

    Meta's help center has an article on exporting a copy of your Meta AI information, but the page we could read did not state the format or contents.

    Meta's own pagesChecked 24 October 2026
  5. 5

    Delete your account/data

    Offered
    1. 1.In the Meta AI app, go to Menu > Settings > Data & privacy > Manage your information and choose to delete all chats and media.
    2. 2.To delete memories, go to Settings > Memory, tap Manage, select the memories and tap Delete.
    3. 3.On WhatsApp, type /reset-ai in a chat with Meta AI to delete Meta AI's copy of that chat, or /reset-all-ais for all of them.
    4. 4.To delete your whole Meta account, go to Accounts Center > Personal details > Account ownership and control > Deactivation or deletion.
    5. 5.You can cancel a Meta AI profile deletion within 30 days.

    Deleting chats does not remove profile details such as age, gender and interests used to personalize Meta AI. Meta's page on deleting just the Meta AI profile did not show the steps.

    Scorecard · You can delete your whole account yourselfNo

    Meta's page describes deleting your AI chats by typing /reset-ai in WhatsApp, Messenger or Instagram, but does not describe deleting a Meta AI account.

    Meta's own pagesChecked 24 October 2026
Where Meta's pages were unclear

Where the pages were unclear

  • No training opt-out found for the Meta AI app, WhatsApp or Messenger outside the EU objection form.
  • No retention period is stated for text chats, before or after deletion.
  • The exact steps to delete only the Meta AI profile were not visible on Meta's page.
  • Memory deletion steps come from a help page; the 2025 newsroom post limits memory to the US and Canada and one-to-one chats, and it is unclear if that limit still applies.
  • Meta does not say whether incognito chats are used for training.
  • The Accounts Center deletion path comes from a Facebook help page; Meta is moving people to Meta Accounts, so labels may differ.

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