Keep Your Claude Conversations Private
Everything you share with Claude — every chat, bank statement, medical question, or personal rant — can show up in a basic Google search if you don't lock it down. Follow these four steps in Claude's settings to keep your conversations private. You can also remove anything already saved in memory that you don't want stored.
Pair a shortcut with a plain request — for example,Takes about 20 seconds inside Claude's settings.— and you get the most reliable results.
Do this in Claude's settings
Four steps, about 20 seconds. Once you're done, your conversations are locked down.
- 01
Open Settings
Open Claude, tap your name in the bottom-left corner, then click Settings.
- 02
Turn off sensitive topics in Memory
Go to Memory on the left side of the page and turn off “Include sensitive topics.”
- 03
Delete your shared chats in Privacy
Go to Privacy, find your shared chats, and hit the trash can next to everything you want private.
- 04
Set Artifacts to private
Go to Artifacts, hit Manage, and set everything to Private.
That's it — your conversations, memory, and artifacts are now private.