How to Clear Your Alexa History and Delete Recordings

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Amazon Echo and Alexa record and save hundreds of requests regularly. It is very secure and safe to use Amazon Alexa to save your history and recording. But if your storage is filling up, then you can choose to clear your Alexa history and delete recordings by following the steps listed below.

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Steps to Clear Your Alexa History and Delete Recordings Through Voice

Open the Alexa application on the computer or smartphone.
Go to the Main menu.
Click on the Settings tab.
After that, select the Alexa account.
Choose the Alexa Privacy option.
Open the Review Voice History menu.
By going to the Review Voice History column, there you will get the Enable deletion by voice button.
Press on the enable or disable slider for activating it.
Verify the selection you have made by pressing on the Enable option.

Steps to Clear Your Alexa History and Delete Recordings Through Application

Go to Alexa on the computer or smartphone.
Press on the Menu option.
After opening the Sidebar, open the Settings tab.
Choose the Alexa account.
After that, you have to choose the History option.
You will get all your voice recording on the History window.
Choose the recording which you wish to clear from the Alexa history.
Press on the Delete Voice Recording option.
You have to clear your recordings one by one because there is no option to clear all the Alexa history at once.

Alexa will also permit you to play voice recordings. In case you wish to play and review the recordings, then here are the steps listed below to search for the recordings:

Click on the Alexa application provided on the Home screen of the computer or smartphone.
Go to the Settings option.
Log in to the Alexa account by entering the email address and password.
Open the Alexa Privacy column of the menu list.
Click on the Review option to get the voice history on the system.
You will get the voice recording menu list on the screen.
Choose the file which you want to play and after that, press on the Play option.

Start using the Echo application to clear the voice history. Follow the steps listed below:

Press on the Echo application on the computer or smartphone.
Open the Settings tab.
Choose the Alexa account option.
Open the general menu of Alexa privacy.
At last, Open the Review Voice History option.
Here, you will get the menu list of all the requests and recording which you have done.
In case you have not removed anything yet, then you will get all the history on the menu list.
Choose the recording which you wish to clear from the Alexa history.
Press on the Delete option.
In case you wish to clear all your requests, then click on the Delete All Recordings for Today button.

Steps to Clear Your Alexa History and Delete Recordings Using Amazon

Open the default browser.
Click on the Alexa Privacy Hub option.
Press on the Privacy Settings option.
Go down and press on the “Manage smart home devices history” URL.
Log in to the Amazon account by entering the email address and password.
Go to the Your Devices option.
Search for the menu list and find the Echo option.
After getting the Echo option, press on it.
Press on the Delete Voice Recordings button.
Amazon will send you to the warning message.

Billy Mark is a Microsoft Office expert and has been working in the technical industry since 2002. As a technical expert, Billy has written technical blogs, manuals, white papers, and reviews for many websites such as office.com/setup.