On August 26, 2026, Anthropic announced an update to Claude's memory mechanism, integrating memory functions across Cowork and chat to achieve unified memory management. Users can now better continue their work without repeatedly providing background information. The memory function for sensitive topics is disabled by default, but users can manually enable it. This update is available to both free and paid users, covering Mac and iOS platforms, and is enabled by default across the web version, desktop, and mobile apps.