For the service covered by the cited guidance, a regular chat remains in chat history after the conversation ends. It stays there until deletion or workspace retention removes it, and its handling follows the account’s personalization and data settings.
Archiving is different from deleting. An archived conversation remains in the account under the same retention rules as other saved chats.
How to check what applies
- Review the account’s personalization and data settings. Regular chat history follows those settings.
- Check whether the chat is archived. If it is, treat it as a saved conversation subject to saved-chat retention.
- Determine whether workspace retention applies. The cited guidance says workspace retention can remove regular chats, but it does not provide a standard retention period.
- Use deletion rather than archiving when the intended action is removal. Archiving keeps the conversation in the account; it does not discard it.
What the cited guidance does not specify
The available Help Center pages do not state a fixed number of days for retaining regular or archived chats. They also do not provide a complete inventory of every associated data category, so they support a conclusion about conversation history and retention—not a full account-data inventory.
Readers must still confirm the current retention terms, applicable workspace rules, and the effect of their own account settings.