[cpeterso]

The Claude (and ChatGPT) web UI supports incognito/temporary chats that are discarded when you close the tab. Click the ghost or dotted speech bubble icon in the upper right corner of the page.

I use this as my default mode so I don't clutter my chat history with random, one-off questions I ask. Unfortunately, there is no way to change your mind and save a productive incognito chat after you've started chatting.

[Wowfunhappy]

I feel like every time I try to use this feature, I get burned because I accidentally use the back touchpad gesture, or I accidentally close the tab, etc. Or, I remember one time I was using the Claude iPhone app, and I quickly switched apps to respond to a text message. My phone must have been low on memory or something, because as soon as I switched back to Claude, the app faded to the startup screen and the whole conversation was gone.

Which of course is the entire point, so I don’t really know what I want here, but what they have right now isn’t that usable IMO. Maybe a chat that lasts 24 hours? And, it would be nice if there was a way to convert an incognito chat into a persistent chat.

[vorticalbox]

the request still went to a server you have no control over.

For all we know these temporary chats are saved and linked to your account but just don’t show up in the UI.

[steve_adams_86]

I believe they are. In the case of my organization's account, Incognito chats are even visible to admins.

An interesting/odd way to think about the feature is that you're not hiding the chats from other humans, but from Claude.

[unethical_ban]

If the privacy policy is to be believed, they save them for 30 days for presumably investigative purposes, but do no keep them longer, permanently associate them to your account or use them for model training.