Anthropic is rolling out a single Claude memory that follows users between chat and Claude Cowork, giving both products saved context when a task begins. The change starts today for people moving between conversations and Cowork’s cloud tasks. Memory is on by default for Free, Pro, and Max users on web, desktop, and mobile. Team and Enterprise access remains under administrator control, and individual users must turn it on.
Claude now has one memory across chat and Claude Cowork, and you decide what's in it.
— Claude (@claudeai) August 25, 2026
Hand Cowork a task and it starts from what Claude already knows from your chats: the project you talked through, your manager's preferences, or the client from last quarter. pic.twitter.com/ViKapsT8K6
Cowork can now draw on details accumulated in chat, such as project priorities, team terminology, or preferences for manager updates. Information that arises while Cowork handles a task can carry back into later chats. A user could discuss an event agenda in chat, then ask Cowork to prepare its budget and logistics without repeating the city, headcount, or speakers.
Claude now adds topics to memory as conversations happen instead of waiting until a conversation ends to produce a summary. A moved deadline can therefore appear in the next conversation without an explicit request to remember it. Users can pause or reset memory at any time.
The stored information appears as short files organized by topic in Settings > Memory. Each file can be read, edited, or deleted, so correcting an outdated company name once changes what chats and Cowork tasks receive. Shared memory is inspectable, giving users control over carried context.
Sensitive topics remain excluded by default, including health, race, ethnicity, religion, politics and gender identity. Users can opt in to saving them and will see a notice when Claude records one, but the choice applies only going forward. Claude will still refuse to store sensitive identification numbers, criminal history, immigration status, or material that violates Anthropic’s Acceptable Use Policy. The option can be turned off again at any time.
On iOS and Android, users need the latest app version. Anthropic, the company behind Claude, is using the release to connect its conversational product with Cowork’s cloud task runner through a common context layer. The result is continuity across where users work with Claude, paired with controls over what is stored and what remains excluded.
