PSA: Gemini deletes your chat history after 18 months by default, unless you changed the setting
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Found this out the hard way. I went looking for a long research conversation from early last year, one I had deliberately kept, and it was gone. Not archived, not hidden. Deleted, on schedule, by a setting I had never opened. What is happening Gemini's conversations are part of your Gemini Apps Act…
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- 2026-09-15 15:42 · r/GeminiAI
PSA: Gemini deletes your chat history after 18 months by default, unless you changed the setting