Gemini Adds a Memory Summary So You Can See, Edit, and Delete What It Knows About You

Summary

Google is rolling out a Memory summary in the Gemini app that lays out what the assistant has learned about you. You can read it by category, add or remove details by typing, and check a history of changes. It lives under Settings, then Personal Intelligence, on the web for now, and it is limited to Google AI subscribers using US English with Keep Activity and Memory turned on.

Why it matters

AI memory is useful until you forget what it is holding. A single page where readers can audit and wipe that data is the kind of control families should be using.

HTD Says

If you let an AI remember you, you should be able to read the file it keeps, and Google just made that easy to do. Memory management within AI is an important feature. Both OpenAI and Anthropic have had this feature for a while. It’s essential if you use AI for ongoing work and for it to understand who you are, what your interests are, how you work, and much more.

But what an AI knows about you is often quite arbitrary. It may remember some obscure fact or event you mentioned in passing and then bring it up later in an equally arbitrary way. With other AIs, you could simply review the “memory” and delete it. Gemini didn’t have that feature until now.

Maybe we should roll a “review your AI memory” into a Spring Tech Cleaning-type event. I’m guessing most users (myself included) don’t often review AI memories. But it’s getting easier.

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