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- OpenAI launches your year with the ChatGPT experience.
- You can see highlights and themes of your conversations.
- You can only reference saved memories and chat history if you’re signed up.
With less than two weeks left in the year, OpenAI is launching a new recap experience called Your Year with Chatbots, which provides information about your interactions with chatbots over the past year.
The Spotify Wrapped-like experience, launched on Monday, presents users with high-level themes of their ChatGPT interactions, as shown in the image at the top of the article. OpenAI said the experience was “designed to be lightweight, privacy-forward, and user-controlled.”
Your year with ChatGPT!
It’s now rolling out to everyone in the US, UK, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia who have Context Saved Memories and Context Chat History turned on.
Just make sure your app is updated. pic.twitter.com/whVkS1qxKu– OpenAI (@OpenAI) 22 December 2025
It is available to all users, including those with free accounts. Users simply need to open ChatGPT on iOS, Android, or the web to trigger the experience automatically. If it does not appear, users can trigger the experience themselves by asking ChatGPT “Your year with ChatGPT.”
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There is a warning. For the experience to work, you must have reference saved memories and reference chat history Able. If you, like me, have disabled these features due to privacy concerns, you will receive an error message saying that you need to enable these features to access the recap, as it requires the ability to reference your previous conversations.
If you used temporary chat, that content also won’t be included in the Recap experience. You can still turn on the memory and access your personal recap, but it may take a while for it to fully appear, as it needs the content to reference.
If you don’t see it and have it turned on, it may be because the feature is still being released to you, you haven’t reached the minimum activity threshold, you’re using a Teams enterprise or education account, or you live in an unsupported country, OpenAI said.
Besides this experience, there are other ways you can find out what ChatGPT knows about you. For example, people are using simple prompts to get ChatGPT to provide analysis of their character, chatting patterns, growth and more. The more you talk to the chatbot, the more insightful the analysis will be, as it will have more data about you.
