Saving and Exporting Wave AI Chats
Email yourself a copy of any AI conversation, and know exactly what clearing a chat deletes.
Wave keeps your AI conversations, so you can come back to one later. When you want a copy outside the app — to forward, file, or keep before you clear it — the iPhone and Android apps can email you the whole conversation.
Email yourself a chat
Emailing a chat is available in the iPhone and Android apps. The web app and desktop app don't have it yet.
Open the chat you want a copy of — Wave Assistant, a folder chat, or a single session's chat. All three work.
Tap the … button to the left of the message box to open Chat Actions.
Tap Send to Email. You'll see Chat history has been sent to your email. when it's on its way.
The email goes to the address on your Wave account — the one shown under Email in Settings. It's titled after whatever the chat was about: the session title, the folder name, or Wave Assistant for a cross-session chat.
If nothing has been said yet, Wave tells you There are no messages to send. rather than sending an empty email.
The same Chat Actions menu also holds Clear Chat and View Session Details, which jumps back to the recording (or folder) the chat is pointed at.
What Wave saves on its own
You often don't need an export at all — chats persist.
- Session and folder chats are stored on that session or folder. Reopen it and the conversation is still there, on any device.
- Wave Assistant conversations are saved as separate threads. Find them under Recent Chats on mobile and web, or History on desktop.
What clearing actually deletes
This differs by the kind of chat, and it matters if you're about to clear one.
- A session or folder chat — clearing permanently deletes that conversation. It's gone on every device. Email yourself a copy first if you want to keep it.
- A Wave Assistant conversation — clearing just starts a fresh thread on screen. The old conversation stays in your history until you delete it from the list with the trash icon.
Where to find the control:
Chat Actions → Clear Chat. The refresh icon in the top right does the same thing — it clears a session or folder chat, and starts a new conversation in Wave Assistant.
FAQ
Not directly. Chat export is email only. To get a session's summary or transcript into a document, use sharing and exporting instead.
No — it contains the chat conversation itself. To send the recording's summary, see emailing your Wave summaries.
Not from Wave. It always sends to your own account address; forward it from your inbox from there.
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