You can choose to share recordings of your voice mode conversations and dictated prompts with Anthropic to help us improve those features. This article explains how sharing works, how to manage your choice, how we use and protect your recordings, and how long we keep them.
Sharing voice recordings is available on Free, Pro, Max, and Ultra plans, for voice mode and dictation. It isn't available on Team and Enterprise plans, or to organizations with zero data retention (ZDR).
Sharing is currently available only on Claude for iOS and Android. The setting doesn't appear on the web or in Claude Desktop, and we don't keep recordings from voice mode or dictation there
By default, we don't keep the audio from your voice mode conversations or dictated prompts. Your speech is converted to text, the recording is deleted, and the text is saved in your chat history. Your privacy settings apply to that text just as they do to the rest of your chats—if you've chosen not to share your chats with us to improve Claude, this setting holds.
If you'd like to help us improve voice mode and dictation, you can choose to share your voice recordings with Anthropic. This is off unless you turn it on.
How it works
After your first voice conversation, you'll see a prompt asking whether to allow us to use your voice chat data. Tap "Allow" to opt in, or "Not now" to leave it off.
Once you've opted in, you'll sometimes see a card after a conversation asking whether to share its audio recording and voice chat data. Tap "Allow" to share it, or "No thanks" to delete it.
The first time you tap "Allow," choose "Always allow" to share eligible conversations automatically, or "Ask each time" to keep deciding one at a time.
We only keep audio you choose to share. If you tap "No thanks," the recording is deleted. Unless you've chosen "Always allow," it's also deleted if you don't see a card.
Manage your settings
On Claude Mobile, go to Settings > Privacy. Turn off Allow us to use your voice data to stop sharing new recordings, or switch between "Ask each time" and "Always allow." In voice mode, you can also get there from the settings button in the bottom left corner.
To delete every recording you've shared, across every organization you use Claude in, tap "Delete shared recordings." Deleting your Claude account also deletes them.
When you export your Claude data, any recordings you've shared are included in the download.
How we use your recordings
We use the recordings you share to evaluate and improve voice mode and dictation, for example to check how accurately Claude understands what you say. We don't use your recordings to recreate your voice or to recognize who you are from your voice.
How your recordings are protected
Once saved, each recording you share, and its transcript, is encrypted with its own key.
Recordings are encrypted while they travel from the Claude app to our servers.
Access is denied by default. Only approved people and systems can open a recording, and each access is logged.
If you've chosen "Ask each time," the recording is held temporarily, usually for less than a day, until you decide. If you don't share it, it's deleted.
How long we keep your recordings
We keep the recordings you share for 30 days, after which we remove access and delete them from our systems. You can also "Delete shared recordings" or delete your Claude account at any time.
Turning off Allow us to use your voice data stops new recordings from being shared. It doesn't delete recordings you've already shared, so tap "Delete shared recordings" to remove those.
Deleting a chat also deletes any recording we kept from it.
Learn more about our privacy practices by visiting our Privacy Policy and Privacy Center.