ChatGPT now lets you lock your chats

OpenAI announced connected Tuesday that users tin present fastener ChatGPT conversations to support delicate chats backstage erstwhile others whitethorn person entree to their surface oregon device. Users tin unafraid their locked chats with a four-digit PIN, oregon usage Face ID oregon Touch ID connected supported devices.

Unlike the app’s Temporary Chats, which supply a abstracted league that doesn’t look successful chat history, users tin instrumentality to Locked Chats astatine immoderate time.

The institution says the diagnostic is designed for situations wherever users mightiness beryllium discussing thing idiosyncratic oregon readying a astonishment and privation to support those conversations backstage erstwhile handing their instrumentality to friends oregon household to amusement them thing successful different chat.

The summation of locked chats adds a caller furniture of privateness to ChatGPT, arsenic the app is progressively utilized for personal conversations. Of course, portion locking a chat tin bounds access, it doesn’t code concerns astir however delicate accusation is stored oregon handled.

OpenAI notes that locking a chat doesn’t make end-to-end encryption oregon a abstracted encrypted vault, alteration however agelong it retains the chat, region accusation that ChatGPT remembered earlier a chat was locked, oregon alteration the “Improve the exemplary for everyone” setting.

Once users fastener a chat, it moves to a dedicated “Locked Chats” section, wherever it’s kept abstracted from regular chat history, pinned conversations, and chat hunt results.

With Memory enabled, Locked Chats has its ain abstracted representation shared crossed conversations wrong the section. New messages sent aft locking a chat tin update that memory, but don’t update regular Memory. That means caller accusation from locked chats won’t leak into regular chats.

OpenAI says resetting a PIN permanently deletes each locked chats, files, and different contented protected by the erstwhile PIN.

Additionally, the Locked Chats enactment isn’t disposable for impermanent chats, archived chats, radical chats, chats created from a shared link, chats with scheduled tasks, and chats with gathering recordings.

Locked Chats volition beryllium disposable to users connected ChatGPT Free, Go, Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, and Edu plans. The institution notes that the diagnostic is not disposable connected ChatGPT for Healthcare. The diagnostic is starting to rotation retired connected Tuesday, truthful it whitethorn not beryllium unrecorded yet for each users.