Amazon heats the option not to send audio recordings to the cloud

Amazon stops a feature that allowed users of some Smart Echo speakers to choose Not to send their audio recordings to the cloud. According to an e -mail message that the company sent to users Posted on RadetIt will disable the feature that allowed Select Echos to process Alexa requests locally on the device on March 28, 2025.

This step seems to be connected to its release Alexa plus, which works in the IQ, artificial intelligenceIt is scheduled later this month (March 28, perhaps?). Email, “With our continued expansion of Alexa’s capabilities through the AI’s generation features that depend on the treatment strength of Amazon Secure, we decided not to support this feature.”

Amazon confirmed the change in email to freedom. The official spokeswoman Lauren Raimlid presented the following statement: “The Alexa experience is designed to protect the privacy of our customers and maintain its safe data, and this does not change. We focus on the privacy tools and controls that our customers use more and work well with the experiments of the obstetric intelligence that depends on the power of safe cloud processing from Amazon. Customers can continue to choose from a strong set of tools and controls, and controls, and controls, and control elements, Including the option of not saving their audio recordings at all.

As she says, you will still be able to get Amazon Delete audio recordings after sending them to the cloud. If you have an option “Don’t send audio recordings”, this will lead to a default “Do not save recordings” Preparation on March 28. This means that your records will be sent to the cloud and processed and then deleted after you deal with Alexa with the request.

If you have not heard this option, this is not a surprise. Local processes of audio recordings were only available on three Echo Dot (Gen Gen), Echo Show 10, and Echo Show 15 – and only for customers in the United States with devices set on the English language.

However, it is a shame that the cucumber disappeared away, as there was a feature that many would like to see extensively to more devices, and not be taken away, especially for smart home users who might use the sound assistant only to play their lights or adjust their thermostat. But it seems that the future of Alexa, and to be fair, most of its past, is everything about the cloud.