ChatGPT Adds Locked Chats With PIN and Biometric Access

Oct 20, 2026
ChatGPT users can now protect selected conversations with a PIN, Face ID, or Touch ID. Locked chats remain accessible but are separated from regular history, search results, and memory.

OpenAI is rolling out Locked Chats for ChatGPT, allowing users to protect conversations with a four digit PIN, Face ID, or Touch ID, according to TechCrunch. Locked conversations move into a separate section and do not appear in regular chat history, pinned conversations, or search results.

Users can return to locked conversations, unlike Temporary Chats. When Memory is enabled, Locked Chats uses separate memory shared within that section, and new information added there does not update regular Memory.

Locking a conversation does not create a separate encrypted vault, change retention periods, or remove information ChatGPT remembered before the lock. Resetting a PIN permanently deletes the chats, files, and other content protected by the previous PIN.

The feature is rolling out across Free, Go, Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, and Edu plans. It is unavailable for ChatGPT for Healthcare, temporary chats, archived chats, group chats, shared link chats, scheduled task chats, and chats containing meeting recordings.

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