Chat & Documents

How to use temporary chat

Temporary chat is for conversations you do not want kept. Switch it on and the exchange runs normally, but it is not written to your chat history.

It is a per-conversation switch, not a setting you configure once, so it is easy to turn on for a quick question and forget about afterwards.

When to use this

  • You are testing a prompt and do not want the attempt cluttering your history.
  • The conversation involves details you would rather not keep on file.
  • You want a clean, one-off answer with no follow-up thread.

Turn it on

  1. Open AI Chat Pro

    Start a new conversation. The row of icons at the right of the message box holds the extra chat controls, including the temporary chat icon.

    Message box in AI Chat Pro with the temporary chat icon at the right
    The temporary chat icon sits in the message box controls.
  2. Select the temporary chat icon

    Click it once. The icon fills in and a short notice appears above the message box confirming that the conversation will not be saved to your chat history.

    Temporary chat enabled notice above the message box
    The notice above the box confirms temporary mode is active.
  3. Chat as normal

    Write your prompt and continue the conversation as usual. Everything else behaves the same; only the saving of the thread changes.

When it switches off

Temporary mode is deliberately short-lived. It stays on until you click the icon again to unselect it, move to another page, or refresh the page — after any of those it turns off by itself and later conversations are saved again.