Amazon is eliminating a setting on Echo devices that lets you store voice recordings locally rather than on cloud servers. Here’s what you need to know.

The settings can be viewed and changed from the Alexa app on your smartphone, under “More > Alexa Privacy”. Alexa users may wish to review the settings in “Manage your Alexa Data” to choose how long recordings are saved for and which voice recordings to delete. Recordings may also be deleted using a voice command.

Once you've got those things sorted, here's how to do it.