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Public story · 2026-09-12 · high
Anthropic says the retention and reopen link are intentional, contradicting its own help center's claim that incognito chats can't be reopened.
Why now: The r/ClaudeAI thread carrying Anthropic's verbatim reply to the security report is dated September 12, 2026.
A Claude user found that files attached inside an incognito chat still show up in account settings afterward. A shared computer, or malware with local access, can walk that 30-day file list and reopen the chats behind it.
The files sit under User Settings, Privacy, Uploaded Files, next to a Chat link that reopens the full conversation. Anthropic's help center says incognito chats can't be reopened once closed. The settings page does exactly that.
Another user submitted the finding to Anthropic's security program. They posted the reply word for word in the r/ClaudeAI thread. Anthropic called it "documented behavior of incognito chats rather than a security vulnerability," with a default 30-day retention before automatic deletion.
The reply doesn't address the word itself. Incognito, in a browser, means nothing persists. Claude's version keeps a pointer to the chat and its files for a month, filed under a settings menu instead of gone.
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