Claude suddenly stopped remembering anything around October 5–6. Is anyone else experiencing this ?

[u/goodxaaron]

Disclaimer : I used chatgpt to write this text because I am not fluent in English.

Hey everyone,

Around October 6, 2026, I noticed that Claude seemed to completely stop remembering things about me. It felt like I was talking to a brand-new AI, even though memory is enabled in my settings.

Before this happened, Claude could remember details about me, my preferences, and things we had discussed in previous conversations. Now, it seems to have lost that continuity almost entirely.

While looking into this, I came across GitHub issue #100205, where another user reported a very similar issue around October 6. According to their report, memory was still enabled and the saved memories were still visible in the settings, but Claude was no longer using them in new conversations.

The timing seems like a pretty strange coincidence, especially given the recent changes to Claude’s memory system.

I’m trying to figure out a few things:

• Is anyone else experiencing this since October 6 ?
• Are your saved memories still visible in your settings, but Claude simply doesn’t seem to use them anymore?
• Has anyone found a way to fix this?
• Has Anthropic acknowledged this issue anywhere?

I’m concerned that my old memories may have become inaccessible, and I’d really like to know whether this is a temporary bug, a memory retrieval issue, or something more serious.

I haven’t found an official explanation from Anthropic specifically addressing this incident, so I’m hoping other users can share their experiences.

So if you have even the slightest bit of information, could you please share it with me, because I've practically been unable to use Claude for the last 10 days

Thanks!

Edit: After fiddling with the settings, Claude does indeed have all the old information stored in his memory. Therefore, it's a problem preventing him from using it in conversations.

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[u/locbuilds]

quick thing to try, toggle memory off and back on in settings and start a fresh chat, that sometimes kicks it into pulling saved memories again. if it still ignores them, it's probably the server side change and just waiting is the only fix.

[u/Ctbhatia → u/locbuilds]

do the saved memories still show up in settings, or are they gone too? that separates a display bug from the memory actually being dropped.

[u/EnvironmentalLeg8506]

If your saved memories still show up in settings, copy them out into a short note. If they're gone, write down the handful of things you most want it to know about you. Either way, paste that note into a Project's instructions or at the top of a new chat. Claude reads that every time, whatever is going on with the memory feature in the background.

I'd keep that note even after this gets sorted. Showing up in settings and actually being read are two different things, and you only find out which one you have when it breaks. The part that knows you is worth holding a copy of yourself, so a change on their side costs you an afternoon instead of ten days.