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History

Your recent dictations are in Settings > Voice typing, under History. The settings page shows your last five. Click History to see them all, grouped by day.
  • Click a dictation to copy it.
  • Open the … menu and select Delete to remove one.
  • Click Clear all to remove every dictation. This can’t be undone.
Your history is only saved locally. It isn’t synced to your other devices or saved to your Granola account. Cancelled dictations aren’t saved.

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Local data storage

You can control what is stored locally on your Mac under Local data storage in Settings > Voice typing:
  • Store data locally: Keeps your dictation history until you delete it. Your dictation audio is kept only for failed dictations and deleted after 24 hours. This is the default.
  • Delete after 24 hours: Removes your dictation history and audio from failed dictations after 24 hours.
  • Never store data locally: Never stores your history or audio from failed dictations locally.
Changing the setting also removes anything already stored that the new setting doesn’t allow.

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Retrying a failed dictation

If Granola can’t finish a dictation (e.g. if your connection drops), it stores the audio so you don’t have to say it again. The pill at the bottom of your screen lets you retry straight away, or you can retry the dictation from History later. Saved audio is encrypted, stays on this Mac, and is deleted after 24 hours. Audio from dictations that worked is never kept. With Never store data locally, no audio is saved, so failed dictations can’t be retried.

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What leaves your Mac

Granola only listens while you’re dictating: from when you press your shortcut until you finish or cancel. To turn your speech into text, Granola sends these to its transcription and AI providers:
  • your audio
  • your dictionary and chosen language
  • with screen context on, limited text from the app you’re dictating into
Our transcription and AI providers do not use your dictations to train their models. See Models & training. With Learn from your corrections on, Granola watches the text field for a moment after pasting. If you fix a word, it sends that word and the text around it to check whether it’s a name or term worth learning to improve your experience.

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Screen context

With screen context on, Granola reads text from the app you’re dictating into when you start and when you finish. This can include:
  • the app’s name, window title, and the website address if you’re in a browser
  • the text before and after your cursor in the field you’re typing in, and any text you’ve selected
  • other text that’s visible nearby, like the email you’re replying to or messages in the conversation
Granola reads this text through macOS Accessibility. It doesn’t take screenshots, and it skips password fields. The text is sent with your audio for that dictation only. It isn’t saved in your history. To stop Granola reading your screen, turn off Screen context in Settings > Voice typing. Dictation still works, but styles and app-specific formatting are turned off.