ChatGPT adds PIN-locked private chats — but forgetting the PIN erases them for good
ThereWas · reddit · 2026-10-26
Per Fortune, ChatGPT now lets users lock private conversations behind a PIN so others borrowing their device can't read them. The catch: forget the PIN and those locked chats are permanently erased. A new privacy-vs-data-loss tradeoff for users who treat ChatGPT as a personal assistant for sensitive content.
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