As 2025 comes to a close, OpenAI is rolling out a new, optional feature for consumers: Your Year with ChatGPT. Designed as a lightweight, end-of-year reflection, the experience offers users a personalized look back at how they interacted with ChatGPT over the past year.

The feature highlights high-level conversation themes, usage patterns, and summary statistics — along with playful, creative elements — offering a more reflective look at how people used AI throughout 2025.

Your Year with ChatGPT reflects on how an individual used the chatbot throughout 2025, summarizing conversation themes and interaction patterns rather than surfacing individual prompts or messages. Instead, the experience focuses on high-level usage patterns, showing how people leaned on ChatGPT for creativity, learning, problem-solving, or exploration during the year.

To access the experience:

The recap appears on the ChatGPT home screen but does not open automatically, keeping the experience fully user-controlled and private.

Users can also manually trigger the experience by asking ChatGPT directly for “Your Year with ChatGPT.”

In addition to statistics, the feature includes lighthearted creative elements designed to personalize the experience:

Along with awards, Your Year with ChatGPT also assigns an archetype based on how you tend to use the tool. My 2025 archetype was The Navigator — a profile associated with exploring new ideas, mapping next steps, and using ChatGPT to move forward without overanalyzing. That framing felt especially fitting given how often ChatGPT has been part of my editorial workflow — helping chart coverage decisions, structure stories, and prioritize what matters most for our audience.

These elements mirror familiar consumer recap formats, making the experience approachable rather than technical.

At launch, Your Year with ChatGPT is available:

The rollout is gradual, meaning some users may see the feature later than others. OpenAI has confirmed it is available on both:

Users are encouraged to ensure their app is updated to the latest version.

As first reported by TechCrunch, OpenAI’s approach draws inspiration from familiar consumer year-end experiences such as Spotify Wrapped, which summarize usage trends with visually engaging, personalized storytelling.

Like those recaps, Your Year with ChatGPT emphasizes reflection and engagement rather than productivity metrics — offering users a moment to consider how AI fit into their daily lives over the past year.

Q: Who can access Your Year with ChatGPT?
A: The feature is available to Free, Plus, and Pro users who have Memory and Reference Chat History enabled and meet a minimum activity threshold. Business, Enterprise, and Education accounts are excluded.

Q: Does OpenAI review or share individual conversations?
A: No. The experience summarizes high-level themes and usage patterns rather than resurfacing specific prompts or messages.

Q: How do users access the feature if it doesn’t appear automatically?
A: Eligible users can ask ChatGPT directly for “Your Year with ChatGPT” to trigger the experience.

While Your Year with ChatGPT is intentionally lighthearted, it reflects a broader trend: AI tools are becoming more personal, not just more powerful.

By offering users a way to reflect on how they used ChatGPT — whether for creativity, learning, problem-solving, or exploration — OpenAI is reinforcing the idea that AI isn’t only about outputs, but about ongoing human–AI collaboration. As tools like ChatGPT become more embedded in everyday life, features like this highlight the evolving relationship between people and AI — one shaped as much by curiosity and creativity as by efficiency.

Editor’s Note: This article was created by Alicia Shapiro, CMO of AiNews.com, with writing, image, and idea-generation support from ChatGPT, an AI assistant. However, the final perspective and editorial choices are solely Alicia Shapiro’s. Special thanks to ChatGPT for assistance with research and editorial support in crafting this article.