How-to guide · Memory tab Forget a single memory

Actionper-row forget
Audience Privacy
Time Under 10 seconds
Permissions None
What this is: A surgical, one-row delete. Every fact in the Memory tab carries a small Forget button on its right edge. Tap it and that one row is gone — not just hidden; actually deleted from the on-device store, with no copy left on a server. Use this when Aside has a fact slightly wrong, when something has changed in your life, or when you simply don’t want a particular detail in the model’s context anymore.
Try it now

Open the Memory tab (rightmost pill at the bottom of the screen), pick any row, and tap its Forget button:

tap ‘Forget’ on a row

The row vanishes immediately and a quiet memory updated chime plays. The rest of the Memory tab is unchanged.

Step by step

  1. Open the Memory tab

    From the main Aside screen, tap the memory pill at the bottom-right of the screen. The Memory tab slides up over the orb. (Walk-through of this step lives in the Memory tab overview.)

    The Memory tab open as a bottom sheet on the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra, with the dimmed orb visible behind the scrim above. The eyebrow ‘MEMORY LEDGER’ sits above the heading ‘What I remember’ with a clay-red ‘Forget all’ pill on the right of the header row. A footnote reads ‘Lives only on your phone. Never sent to a server except inside a single turn — and then never logged.’. The first active section header ‘ABOUT YOU / About you’ contains a single row reading ‘favorite_season: autumn’ with an annotation ‘— (remember action)’ and a clay-red ‘Forget’ pill on the right. Below it the ‘ROUTINES / Routines’ section begins with ‘User has a dentist appointment on Friday at 2pm’ — also with its own Forget button.
    Memory tab open. Every row has its own small Forget button on the right.

  2. Find the row you want to forget

    Scroll the sheet if you need to. Each row has three parts you can use to identify it: the small mono eyebrow label (the key — for example FAVOURITE SEASON), the content (the value — for example autumn), and a Forget button on the right. The Forget button is part of the row itself, not a separate menu — nothing to long-press, nothing to swipe.

    The same Memory tab view as the previous frame — Memory ledger header with ‘Forget all’ on the right, ABOUT YOU / About you containing the row ‘favorite_season: autumn — (remember action)’ with its own clay-red ‘Forget’ pill, then ROUTINES below. The post-processing pass crops to the favorite_season row to highlight its three parts: key, content, and per-row Forget pill.
    Each row is self-contained: label, content, and per-row Forget. No long-press, no swipe.

  3. Tap the row’s ‘Forget’ button

    Tap the small Forget button at the right of the row. It’s a 56×56 dp hit target so you don’t have to be precise. A quiet memory updated chime plays as confirmation; if you’ve set Aside to read updates aloud, you’ll also hear a short spoken “forgotten.”

    The Memory tab the moment after the Forget button has been tapped on the targeted row. The ABOUT YOU section is gone — its only row has been removed and the heading collapsed up — so the first visible section is now ROUTINES, with ‘User has a dentist appointment on Friday at 2pm’ and below it a candidate row ‘User’s favorite season is autumn.’ each with their own ‘Forget’ pill on the right.
    Tap and the row leaves immediately. There is no “are you sure?” for individual rows — that’s reserved for the all-at-once Forget all.

  4. Confirm it’s gone

    The Memory tab redraws without the deleted row. The category heading stays even if it’s now empty (so you can still see what kinds of facts exist; nothing is hidden). From the next turn onward, that fact is no longer in the small slice of memory shipped to the model — it’s as if you’d never said it.

    The Memory tab after the row is forgotten — sheet redrawn. The page header ‘Memory ledger / What I remember’, the privacy footnote, and the top-bar ‘Forget all’ pill are still in place. The ABOUT YOU section that previously contained ‘favorite_season: autumn’ is now empty and its heading has collapsed up, so the first visible category section is ROUTINES — listing ‘User has a dentist appointment on Friday at 2pm’ and the candidate ‘User’s favorite season is autumn.’ each with their own per-row Forget pill.
    Row gone, sheet redrawn. The category heading stays visible even if it’s now empty.
Or do it by voice: You can also forget a single fact without opening the Memory tab. Say “forget my favorite season” and Aside removes the matching row and confirms in chat. See Forget a single fact by voice for that flow. Both paths hit the same on-device store, so use whichever is easier in the moment.
Forget is permanent: There is no undo, no trash, no recoverable copy on a server — that’s the whole point. If you need a backup before a big clean-up, use the Export memory option in Settings » Memory first.