ChatGPT has introduced a new year-end recap feature that gives users a personalized snapshot of how they interacted with the AI throughout 2025. Rather than simply summarizing conversations one by one, this recap highlights patterns, trends, and themes from a user’s activity, offering insight into the types of questions, topics, and tasks they focused on over the year. The idea is to help people reflect on their AI usage in a meaningful way — whether for productivity, learning, creativity, or daily support.
When activated, the year-end report looks at the range of requests a person made, such as problem-solving, writing, research, or planning. It can emphasize which subjects were most frequent, like travel ideas, work tasks, or creative writing projects, and even note changes in interests over time. Instead of overwhelming users with raw text data, the recap organizes information into clear insights that show how their preferences and priorities evolved across months.
The feature is designed to be both informative and engaging. Users may see highlights such as their most commonly discussed topics, the kinds of tasks they leaned on ChatGPT for, or even moments where the assistant helped with major projects or goals. For people who use the AI in varied ways — from drafting emails to studying for exams — the recap can serve as a subtle reminder of how much ground they covered with the assistant’s help.
Privacy remains a key consideration. Recaps are generated based on conversations the user has chosen to store, and they aren’t shared automatically with others. Sensitive or private prompts are handled with care, and users can decide whether they want to generate a recap or skip it altogether. The focus is on giving individuals insight into their own interactions rather than broadcasting information they might not want to review.
For frequent users, the year-end recap can also reveal trends that might otherwise go unnoticed — patterns in productivity, shifts in interests, or recurring needs that ChatGPT helped address. Some people may be surprised to learn how often they turned to the AI for specific types of support or how their usage changed with different phases of the year.
ChatGPT’s year-end snapshot joins a broader trend in digital tools that aim to help people reflect on their habits and accomplishments over time. By turning thousands of individual interactions into an organized summary, the feature gives users a new way to consider how AI fits into their routines and what it helped them achieve over the past year.
