Overview
- OpenAI is gradually making the feature available in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand on web and mobile, and users can manually trigger it by asking “show me my year with ChatGPT.”
- Access requires the “reference saved memories” and “reference chat history” settings to be enabled and a minimum activity threshold; it does not auto‑open and organizational plans are excluded.
- The experience generates playful awards or archetypes, a short poem, a pixel‑style image, and usage stats such as total messages, number of chats, images created, most talkative day, and chat style.
- OpenAI describes the recap as privacy‑forward, yet memory and history are on by default for many accounts, and Free/Plus/Pro users who keep “Improve the model for everyone” on may have chats used for training.
- CEO Sam Altman publicly joked he was “really disappointed” not to make the top 1% in his own recap, highlighting the shareable, leaderboard flavor of the rollout.