Fact · Voice privacy and security
Microsoft says voice data it collected and linked to your account before October 30, 2020 still shows on your dashboard for as long as Microsoft keeps it.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“Voice data previously collected from products through our speech recognition technologies and associated with your Microsoft account prior to October 30, 2020 will still show up on your dashboard for as long as Microsoft keeps it”
Voice data on the privacy dashboard, Microsoft Support, 2026, Why don't I see new voice data on the dashboard?.
Open the original- What it measures
- Voice clips stored after that date are no longer associated with your Microsoft account, so they do not appear on the dashboard.
- What it does not show
- The article does not give a fixed retention period for these older records.