Best ChatGPT Memory Prompts: 12 to Review, Fix, and Clean

The best ChatGPT memory prompts help you see what ChatGPT remembers about you, correct what is out of date, and remove what you never wanted kept. You type them into a normal chat, then confirm the changes in your memory settings, which OpenAI's help center places under Settings, Personalization, Memory. The 12 prompts below cover reviewing, correcting, adding, and protecting your memories.

Keep sensitive details such as health, money, passwords, and other people's information out of memory. Per OpenAI's help center, turning Memory off does not delete past chats, turning off Reference chat history schedules what it learned for deletion within 30 days, and temporary chats do not create or update memories.

See what ChatGPT remembers

1. Full memory list

What do you remember about me? List each item on its own line, numbered, and group them as preferences, facts about me, and projects.

2. Where a memory came from

For item [number] in your list, tell me what I said that led to it, and whether you would still use it for [use case].

3. Memory audit

Here is everything you remember about me [paste]. I use ChatGPT for [use cases] and do not want [private details] kept. Mark each item keep, correct, or delete, with a one-line reason.

Correct and remove memories

4. Update an outdated fact

Please update your memory: [old fact] is no longer true. The current fact is [new fact]. Confirm what you have saved now.

5. Forget a detail

Please forget that [detail]. Then list what you still remember about [topic] so I can check it is gone.

6. Stop bringing something up

Do not mention [topic] in future answers unless I raise it first. Tell me which memory items are related to it so I can review them in settings.

Add memories that help

7. Work profile memory

Please remember that I work as [role], I mostly use you for [tasks], and I prefer [format, length, tone]. Repeat back exactly what you saved.

8. Project memory

Please remember that I am working on [project] until [date], the audience is [audience], and the key constraint is [constraint]. Remind me to update this when the project ends.

9. Memory from a long chat

From this conversation, suggest up to three things worth remembering for [use case]. Do not save anything yet; show me the exact wording first.

Keep memory and settings in sync

10. Memory versus custom instructions

Here are my custom instructions [paste] and my memory list [paste]. Find items that repeat or conflict, and tell me which single place each one should live.

11. Monthly memory checkup

List what you remember about me that relates to [jobs, projects, places, dates]. Flag anything that may be out of date as of [month] and ask me one question per item.

12. Privacy sweep

Do you remember anything about my health, finances, address, family members, or employer? List those items only, so I can decide what to delete.

Clean up your memory in one prompt

The flagship ChatGPT Memory Prompt: Review, Fix, and Clean What It Knows takes your pasted memory list, use cases, privacy lines, outdated facts, custom instructions, and the controls you see, and returns a verdict per item, correction messages, cleanup steps, overlap with custom instructions, memories worth adding, and a check message. Its example keeps 2 items, corrects 1, and deletes 3.

What to know about ChatGPT memory

According to OpenAI's memory help page, the controls you see vary by plan, region, platform, and workspace, and can include Reference saved memories and Reference chat history. Deleting a chat does not necessarily delete a separate saved memory made from it, and temporary chats do not create or update memories. Check your own settings rather than relying on any guide.

Related prompts

To set standing preferences, start with ChatGPT custom instructions examples and the custom instructions audit and rewrite prompt. For work kept inside one project, use the ChatGPT Projects instructions builder, and for more candid answers, the ChatGPT honesty custom instructions.

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