DELETE VOICE RECORDING
Tap History, which will bring up a menu of everything you’ve asked Alexa. Find
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asking that question (yikes). To get rid of it, tap Delete Voice Recording.
DELETE RECORDINGS FROM A SPECIFIC DATE RANGE
If you’d like to begin anew and have Alexa forget everything you’ve asked her
for a longer time period, you can do that, too. Return to Settings > Alexa
Privacy > Review Voice History. Tap the box under Date Range, where you
can select Today, Yesterday, This Week, This Month, All History, or a custom
range. Then tap the Delete All Recordings for [selected date range], and they’ll
be deleted.
DELETE RECORDINGS FROM THE WEB
You can also delete your Alexa recordings from your Amazon account on the
web. On Amazon.com, click the Manage Your Content and Devices link at the
bottom of the page and select the Alexa Privacy tab up top. Here, you can
change the date range to review past Alexa queries and delete them one by one
or in one fell swoop by date range.
STOP AMAZON FROM LISTENING TO YOU
Amazon, of course, would prefer that you leave your Alexa recordings intact.
“The more data we use to train these systems, the better Alexa works, and
training Alexa with voice recordings from a diverse range of customers helps
ensure Alexa works well for everyone,” the company says.
Perhaps you don’t want random Amazon employees listening to your
recordings, even if they are anonymized. To limit the reach of your Alexa
queries, navigate to Settings > Alexa Privacy > Manage How Your Data
Improves Alexa > Help Improve Amazon Services and Develop New
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recognition and new features may not work well for you.”
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