On March 28, ahead of its Alexa+ rollout, Amazon will get rid of the “Do Not Send Voice Recordings” setting on Echo devices that let people store voice recordings locally.

Amazon Echo models that were previously able to process Alexa requests locally will no longer do so, instead sending those voice recordings to the cloud. An Amazon spokesperson confirmed the change to The Verge after a Reddit user posted a PSA about it on Friday,

Amazon has informed Echo users that they can no longer process Alexa requests locally. Voice recordings are stored in the cloud by default.

Amazon Echo users will no longer have the option to process their Alexa requests locally, which means all of their voice recordings will be sent to the

If you own an Echo smart speaker, it will soon lose a key privacy feature — and be replaced with cloud processing of all voice commands.

Echo devices will lose the ability to process locally and all your Alexa recordings will be sent to Amazon cloud.

Amazon is killing a privacy feature that let Echo device owners process Alexa requests locally and avoid sending voice recordings to the company's cloud. The change will come into effect from March 28, 2025, as part of the rollout for Alexa+, a subscription-based version of its AI assistant.

Owners of the Amazon Echo have long had the option for the device to process requests locally, thereby keeping their information off of Amazon’s servers. That functionality is going away starting on March 28.

All voice recordings of commands or queries given to Amazon voice assistant Alexa on the company’s Echo devices will go to the Amazon cloud starting March 28.