How To Find Alexa Recordings

AMAZON records everything y'all say to Alexa – and sometimes lets workers listen to the phonation clips.

If that creeps y'all out, read on to find out how to hear everything y'all've said to Alexa, and how to delete all of the recordings.

Alexa listens in to your conversations – and you can hear what she's recorded — Alexa listens in to your conversations – and you lot can hear what she's recorded Credit: Alamy

Just this calendar week, an ex-Amazon exec admitted that he turns his Alexa off to stop strangers listening in on his conversations.

That's considering Amazon was sometimes sending your phonation clips off to "graders".

These workers will listen to clips to make sure Alexa is working equally intended – improving the system all round.

However, Alexa will sometimes tape you without your knowledge, because she thought y'all said her proper noun.

You can play back your entire history of Alexa recordings — Y'all tin play back your entire history of Alexa recordings Credit: The Sun / Amazon

Here's what you lot demand to do...

How to find Alexa voice recordings

First, open the Alexa app on your smartphone or tablet.

Tap into the card bar on the left-hand side so tap Settings.

Next tap Alexa Privacy, and then get into Review Phonation History.

This is where yous can cheque up on all of the vocalisation recordings Alexa has captured for you lot.

To listen to the Alexa recordings, simply tap the text you want to hear, and so click the tiny Play icon.

Sometimes Alexa will flag when information technology thinks an audio recording wasn't intended her.

The text won't display in that instance, but you can still listen to the sound file.

How to delete Alexa phonation recordings

To delete audio recordings, individually tap on the empty boxes next to each recording to "tick" them.

And then become to the top of the list and press "Delete Selected Recordings" to delete those individual files.

You tin can as well select a appointment range like "Today", "This Calendar week" or "All History" and then printing "Delete All Recordings" for that date range.

If you but want to delete recordings for a specific speaker, yous can tap Filter By Device and cull the exact Alexa gadget you're looking for.

You tin as well enable deletion by voice on this page.

If you toggle it on, y'all tin can delete recordings using voice commands.

But say either "Alexa, delete what I just said" or "Alexa, delete everything I said today".

It's really easy to delete Alexa recordings for all of your devices Credit: The Sunday / Amazon

Should you delete Alexa voice recordings?

You should be rightly worried nigh Amazon storing a behemothic log of your voice recordings.

Major social media firms have suffered hacks and leaks, so y'all're never truly safe.

Simply deleting your vocalisation recordings isn't ever the best idea.

Though deletion will heave your privacy, it may brand your experience with Alexa worse.

Alexa learns your voice and habits over time to improve the service.

By removing all of your vocalization recordings, yous undo a lot of that learning.

That said, Alexa will still function just fine even if she's not saving everything you say.

The pick is yours: practice you want maximum privacy or the all-time service?

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