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6 Alexa features you should turn off today - CNET
Aug 08, 2020 1 min, 21 secs

From protecting privacy to making Alexa more efficient, here are some ways to improve your Amazon voice assistant.

Voice assistants like Alexa and Google Assistant are gaining capabilities all the time -- from bigger-budget games to more robust home security features -- and plenty of hidden perks really can improve your experience with those voice assistants.

Alexa launched in 2014, and the voice assistant has gotten more personal (and personalizable) every year since.

Whether you're concerned about privacy, don't want friends "dropping in" uninvited or just want Alexa to stop parroting your questions and commands back to you, here are six features you should disable in the Alexa app right now.

Sometimes these suggestions are helpful, for instance offering to lock your door at night or suggesting a new way to use timers, but they can also be annoying and disruptive when you're in the middle of a phone call and don't want to have to tell your voice assistant to stop talking.

To disable it, tap More in the Alexa app, then Settings, then Alexa Privacy.

While you're turning off this feature, you might also consider setting your voice recordings to automatically delete after three months -- an option you can find on the same page as Use of Voice Recordings.

Many of these permissions default to off, but every once in a while, it's a good idea to check which skills you've enabled over the months or years of using Alexa, and if they've gained one-time access that you don't want them to keep forever.

To control these permissions, tap More, then Settings, then Alexa Privacy, then Manage Skill Permissions.

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