Guide to Delete Recall Snapshots & Change Recall Storage Capacity

How to Delete Recall Snapshots

Since Recall captures your computer frequently, these snapshots might take up large disk space on your computer. In order to protect your privacy or free up disk space, you can clear Recall snapshots on your computer. Here is how to do it.

Delete All Recall Snapshots

Step 1. Press Win + I to open Windows Settings on Windows 11.

Step 2. Navigate to the Privacy & security tab, then you should click Recall & snapshots.

Step 3. Scroll down to find and click on the Delete snapshots option.

Step 4. Choose Delete all in the Delete all snapshots section.

Delete Timeframe Recall Snapshots

Alternatively, if you just want to delete snapshots within a specific time duration, you can work with the following steps.

Step 1. Open the Settings page on Windows 11.

Step 2. Head to Privacy & security > Recall & snapshots > Delete snapshots.

Step 3. Choose Past hour, Past 24 hours, Past 7 days, or Past 30 days from the context menu of Delete snapshots from a specific timeframe, then click Delete snapshots to confirm.

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Things About Microsoft Recall

Recall takes screenshots on your computer every 5 seconds to record screen content. These screenshots are locally saved on your computer in a timeline. You can search for the content you need by describing it directly. Recall will filter the matched content for you. With the Screenray feature, you can copy text and send pictures from the snapshot to other applications.

You can prevent Recall from capturing snapshots on certain websites and applications. But when Recall launches or the Now option is enabled in Recall, Recall will take snapshots for even the blocked websites and applications. If you want to send these snapshots to other applications, you can find them in C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Temp. The temp file will be deleted after you transfer it.

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How to Change Storage Capacity Limit for Recall

Your computer has a default storage allocation for Recall snapshots. The storage distribution varies on your device storage, as shown in the table below:

Some people don’t want Recall to take up so much storage space on their devices. If you are one of them, you can change the storage limit with the following steps.

Step 1. Shift to Privacy & security > Recall & snapshots > Storage in Windows Settings.

Step 2. After expanding the Storage option, choose the storage limit from the dropdown menu.

When the Recall snapshots reach the maximum limit, it will delete the oldest snapshots to store new ones.

How to Disable Analysis of User Content

You can configure the corresponding group policy to disable analysis of user content on your computer.

Step 1. Press Win + R to open the Run window.

Step 2. Type gpedit.msc into the dialog and hit Enter to open Local Group Policy.

Step 3. Navigate to User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > WindowsAI > Turn off saving snapshots for Windows.

Bottom Line

This post explains how to delete Recall snapshots as well as how to configure Recall settings on your device. You can change Recall settings to satisfy your requirements. For individual privacy, all Recall snapshots will be stored locally on your device.

Hope this post has some useful information for you.