Amazon Echo users will lose their ability to withhold sending their stored voice recordings to the company’s cloud storage system. With the rollout of Alexa+, the company’s generative AI version of its personal assistant,

Amazon Echo users will no longer have the option to process their Alexa voice recordings locally, which means those recordings (with the exception of

Amazon is discontinuing a feature that allowed users of some of its Echo smart speakers to choose not to send their voice recordings to the cloud. According to an email the company sent to users that was posted on Reddit, it will disable the feature that allowed select Echos to process Alexa requests locally on the device on March 28th, 2025.