> ## Documentation Index
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> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Temporary chat

> Have conversations that are never saved to your chat history and disappear when the app closes.

Temporary Chat lets you have conversations that are **never saved to your chat history**. When enabled, new chats exist only in memory for the current session and disappear as soon as the app is closed or a new chat is started.

## How to enable

**1. Open the Side Menu**

Open the **Side Menu** and tap **Temporary Chat** (spy icon).

**2. Or use the quick-action button**

Alternatively, tap the **Temporary Chat** quick-action button in the message input bar.

When active, the icon turns purple and a badge appears in the header.

## Key behaviors

* **Not saved to storage:** Temporary chats are never written to your device's local storage, so they won't appear in your **Saved Chats** list.
* **Session-only:** The conversation lives in memory. Closing the app or starting a new chat permanently discards it. There is no recovery.
* **Persisted toggle:** The Temporary Chat on/off setting itself is remembered across restarts, but not the temporary chat contents.
* **New chat required:** You cannot convert an existing chat into a temporary one. Enabling Temporary Chat mid-conversation will prompt you to start a fresh temporary chat instead.
* **Hidden from history:** Temporary chats are excluded from the sidebar chat list, export, and any search.

> [!WARNING]
>
> Temporary Chat only controls LMSA's in-app history and local app storage. Depending on your provider, prompts and responses may still be logged outside the app: by your Local Server (LM Studio/Ollama) based on its own logging settings, or by OpenRouter/other cloud API providers according to their policies.


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