Claude and ChatGPT keep your data in 4 places, and deleting one doesn't clear the rest. Get my full checklist for both, with the exact settings.
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Claude and ChatGPT both keep your data in these 4 places. The exact settings are in the checklist.
The 4 places
Your memories
What it's saved about you to reuse later.
Your chats
Every conversation, including the archived ones.
Your connected apps
The email, files and calendars it can reach.
The training switch
Whether your chats help train the next model.
Before you finish
Switching it off only works from now on
What turning training off does to chats you've already had.
Good to know
Company plans, location and deleting your account.
and you've never looked at what it remembers.
and you'd like them actually gone.
and you're not using that connection any more.
and want to check your chats aren't training the next model.
Whenever you chat with AI, it's learning from you and storing your data. That's what makes it feel personal, which is great. You should also know how to change or delete it.
Deleting it from one place doesn't clear the others. So I put all 4 places for Claude and ChatGPT on one checklist, with where to find each setting.
The menu names come from Anthropic's and OpenAI's own help pages, checked 12 October 2026. It's general information, not legal advice.
Yes, both. Each step shows you the setting in Claude and the setting in ChatGPT.
The full checklist opens on this page straight away. All 4 places, 17 boxes and the exact settings. It stays open on the same phone or laptop when you come back.
Yes. Your first name and email, and the checklist opens. No card, nothing to buy.
No. Turning training off doesn't delete anything. Your chats and memories stay until you delete them, which is why the checklist covers all 4 places.
On company plans like Claude Team and ChatGPT Business, your chats aren't used for training by default, and your admin controls some of these settings.
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