ChatGPT now has a Spotify Wrapped-style year-end recap that summarizes how you used the bot across 2025.
📌 Key Takeaways
- The recap includes stats, themes, and a personalized award based on your chat habits.
- It also generates a pixel-art image plus a short poem tied to your topics.
- Availability is limited to the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand at launch.
- You must have Reference saved memories and Reference chat history turned on.
What “Your Year With ChatGPT” Summarizes
The recap is designed to show your conversation patterns in a quick, visual format, including things like themes you discussed, how you tend to interact, and a few “highlight” moments from your year.
Alongside the stats, it adds playful elements like an “archetype,” a personalized award, a poem, and a pixel-art image that reflects the topics you talked about most.
“Your Year with ChatGPT! Now rolling out to everyone in the US, UK, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia who have reference saved memory and reference chat history turned on.” — OpenAI
Who Can Use It And What Must Be Enabled
At launch, the recap is available to eligible users in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, and it’s positioned as a consumer-facing feature rather than a workplace tool.
Access also depends on your plan and settings. The rollout is aimed at Free, Plus, and Pro users, and it requires two personalization toggles to be on: Reference saved memories and Reference chat history.
Those settings are part of ChatGPT’s memory system: “saved memories” are details you explicitly asked it to remember, while “chat history” lets it reference info from past chats for better continuity.
How To View Your “Year With ChatGPT” Step By Step
You can launch the recap from the homepage in the ChatGPT app (mobile or web), and you can also trigger it by typing a direct prompt.
If you do not see it, the most common reasons are: you are outside the launch regions, you are on an ineligible plan type, your required toggles are off, or the rollout has not reached your account yet.
Use the steps below to check in the fastest, least confusing way:
- Update the ChatGPT app to the latest version (iOS or Android).
- Open ChatGPT and tap your profile/settings menu.
- Go to Personalization and turn on Reference saved memories.
- Turn on Reference chat history in the same area.
- Return to the ChatGPT home screen and look for “Your Year with ChatGPT.”
- If you do not see a button, type: “Show me my year with ChatGPT.”
If the recap loads, you should see your usage stats, themes, and the generated image and poem inside the same experience.
Your Year with ChatGPT!
Now rolling out to everyone in the US, UK, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia who have reference saved memory and reference chat history turned on.
Just make sure your app is updated. pic.twitter.com/whVkS1qxKu
— OpenAI (@OpenAI) December 22, 2025
Privacy Checks Before You Share It
This recap exists because ChatGPT is allowed to reference past chats. If you are privacy-sensitive, it’s worth pausing before you post screenshots, since the recap can reflect recurring interests and patterns.
You can control what ChatGPT references by adjusting those two settings at any time. The memory controls are explicitly split so you can keep “saved memories” on while disabling chat-history referencing, depending on your preference.
“Lightweight, privacy-forward, and user-controlled.” — OpenAI
Why OpenAI Is Shipping A Recap Now
Year-end recaps are a simple way to make an invisible product benefit feel tangible. In this case, the feature quietly reinforces two strategic ideas: ChatGPT is becoming more personalized, and the company wants users to understand what that personalization looks like.
It also draws a bright line between consumer fun and business use. The rollout focuses on consumer plans and opt-in settings, which suggests OpenAI is being careful about where this kind of reflective analysis shows up.
Conclusion
“Your Year With ChatGPT” turns a year of scattered conversations into a single shareable snapshot, mixing real usage stats with lightweight creative outputs like a poem and pixel art.
If you want it to appear, the biggest unlock is making sure Reference saved memories and Reference chat history are enabled, then checking the home screen or prompting it directly.
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23rd December 2025
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