Is Limitless AI private? The Pendant, your recordings, and Meta

The Morse teamPublished November 10, 202611 min read

As of November 2026, Limitless AI is private from the public but not from Limitless, and since Meta bought it in December 2025 its privacy policy lets it use your Pendant recordings to train AI models and share them with its "affiliates and others within our corporate group," which now means Meta (Limitless privacy policy). Existing owners can keep using the Pendant through 2026 for free, but Limitless stopped selling it and stopped serving seven regions, including the European Union and the United Kingdom, on December 5, 2025 (Limitless).

We read Limitless's home page and acquisition FAQ, its privacy page, privacy policy, and terms of service (both dated December 5, 2025), eight Limitless help articles, and the Limitless app's App Store and Google Play listings on November 10, 2026. We compared them with archived copies of Limitless's privacy page from November 13, 2025 and its earlier privacy policy, and read two recording-consent laws. We took Limitless at its word and ran no tests. Limitless earns credit in two places. Its acquisition FAQ gives exact dates for what ended, and its consent guide asks owners for more than the law does, telling them to turn the Pendant off when anyone declines.

Limitless privacy at a glance

For continuing US customers, read on Limitless's own pages on November 10, 2026.

What happened to Limitless after Meta bought it?

Limitless stopped selling the Pendant, ended service in seven regions, announced the end of the Rewind app, and rewrote its privacy policy and terms on the day the sale was announced. A Meta spokesperson told TechCrunch on December 5, 2025, "We're excited that Limitless will be joining Meta to help accelerate our work to build AI-enabled wearables" (TechCrunch). We found no announcement of the deal in Meta's newsroom. This timeline comes from Limitless's own pages, its app store listings, and the archived copies.

None of the promises quoted in the first two rows appears on Limitless's current privacy page or in its current policy. The terms dated December 5, 2025 go further on health data, asking you not to share "health information (including Protected Health Information ('PHI')...)" (Limitless terms). Several results for "is limitless ai private" on November 10, 2026 still described the "Confidential Cloud," AI providers that don't train, and short deletion windows. The Limitless help article titled "Privacy with Limitless" that some of those results link to now returns "Uh oh. That page doesn't exist" (Limitless Help).

Does Meta get your Limitless recordings?

Limitless's policy allows it, though none of its pages says it has happened. The privacy policy dated December 5, 2025 says Limitless "may disclose your information to our affiliates and others within our corporate group in connection with the provision, operation, improvement, and development of products and services across our corporate group" (Limitless). Limitless's help article for people talking to a Pendant wearer says the information collected may be used "to train and improve AI and other large language models provided by third parties, including our affiliates" (Limitless Help).

The training clause is broader than it was. The March 2025 policy allowed training of "the artificial intelligence, machine learning, and models that we use to support our Services" (archived Limitless policy). The December 2025 policy drops that limit and says "To train, develop, and improve artificial intelligence, machine learning, and other large language models" (Limitless). Neither the current policy nor the help articles we read gives a setting to opt out.

Limitless still runs the app under its own name. Both app stores list Limitless AI, Inc. as the developer, and the App Store names it as the seller (App Store). The privacy policy the App Store listing links to is Limitless's, not Meta's. Our Meta AI privacy guide covers what Meta's own policy allows.

The March 2025 policy also covered a sale. It said that after an acquisition, use of your information "will be governed by the provisions of this Privacy Policy in effect at the time the applicable information was collected" (archived Limitless policy). Limitless's CEO wrote that continuing customers "will need to agree to our updated Privacy Policy and Terms of Service" (Limitless). How those two fit together for recordings made before December 5, 2025 isn't something Limitless's pages explain. This isn't legal advice.

Is Limitless still available in the EU and UK?

No. Limitless's FAQ says that "As of December 5, 2025, the Limitless service will no longer be available in Brazil, China, the European Union, Israel, South Korea, Turkey, and the United Kingdom" (Limitless). Users there had "until December 19, 2025 to download their information, after which, their account and all associated information will be permanently deleted."

The new policy is written for one country. It says Limitless's services "are hosted in the United States and intended for visitors located within the United States" (Limitless). The March 2025 policy had sections on "Legal Bases For Processing European Information" and "Your European Privacy Rights," and the December 2025 policy has neither.

Is Limitless end-to-end encrypted?

Only for meetings you lock down yourself, in the web and desktop apps. Limitless's help center says "Lockdown is only available in the Limitless web/Mac/Windows app" and lets you end-to-end encrypt "specific meetings" with a password (Limitless Help). The article lists the benefits as "Data is protected from us" and "Data is protected from subpoena." It lists the costs too: locked meetings "can't be searched" and "can't be used for AI responses," and "We cannot reset your lockdown password."

Lockdown now covers less than it did. Limitless's acquisition FAQ says "You will no longer be able to record using the Limitless Desktop App or Limitless Web App" (Limitless). None of the Limitless pages we read says Pendant recordings can be locked down.

Everything else is encrypted with keys Limitless's pages don't assign to you. The privacy page says Limitless uses TLS in transit and stores data "using Hardware Security Modules (HSM) and advanced encryption protocols" (Limitless). The same page says a lost Pendant's audio "is encrypted and not able to be read without the key," without saying who holds the key. Recordings that aren't locked down go to AI providers. The privacy policy says "we send audio recordings or transcripts to our third-party AI providers," and it no longer names them (Limitless). Courts can reach them too: Limitless may disclose information to comply with "court orders, or subpoenas." Our guide to AI data in court shows how that has played out for chatbots.

How do you export or delete your Limitless data?

Export from the web or desktop app before the end of 2026. Limitless's help center says to open app.limitless.ai or the desktop app, go to the Data Exports tab, optionally check Include audio files, and select Request Export (Limitless Help). A long history may take "up to 30-90 minutes," and Limitless suggests date ranges of 1 to 2 months if a large export fails. Our guide to downloading your AI data covers the same steps for chatbots.

To delete everything, open the Account tab, select Settings, then Delete Account, type your email, and select Delete Account Permanently (Limitless Help). Limitless says "This action cannot be undone." Limitless's subscription article says account deletion "can only be done from the Limitless iOS app," under Settings and Delete Account, so try the iPhone app if the web route fails (Limitless Help). Deleting the account doesn't cancel an App Store subscription, which you cancel with Apple.

Limitless doesn't say what happens to your data after 2026. Its terms let it "modify or discontinue the Service at any time... without notice," and promise a refund of "any prepaid but unused Subscription Fee" if it ends a paid feature (Limitless terms).

Is it legal to record people with a Limitless Pendant?

It depends on where you are, and Limitless makes consent your duty. Its terms require you to "provide notice to, and obtain consent" from everyone you record, bar you from using the service to identify the voices of "bystanders who have not consented," and forbid tampering with the LED (Limitless terms). Limitless's consent guide says the light "is not enough," that you "should turn the Pendant off immediately" if anyone declines, and that you should delete audio of anyone who refuses afterwards (Limitless Help). This isn't legal advice.

US federal law lets you record a conversation you're part of (18 U.S.C. § 2511(2)(d)), while California requires everyone's consent to record a confidential conversation (California Penal Code § 632), as our Plaud page explains.

The people you record get less say than you do. Limitless's bystander article says the Pendant may capture their voice, a transcript, and a summary, and the app may "help the Pendant user recognize speakers across recordings" (Limitless Help). Its advice to them is to "reach out to the person who recorded you."

Will Meta make its own pendant?

It's reportedly planning one, but Meta hasn't announced it. Reuters reported on May 30, 2026, citing The Information, that a memo from Alex Himel, Meta's vice president of wearables, says Meta plans to start testing an AI pendant "in the next year" and aims to sell 10 million wearable devices in the second half of 2026 (Reuters, via The Star). Meta declined to comment. For what Meta's current wearables send to Meta, see are Meta AI glasses private.

How Morse keeps your notes off its servers

Most of the problems above start with your recordings sitting on a company's servers, under a policy the company can rewrite, where a sale put them under a new owner along with everyone else's. Morse is an AI chat for the part after the conversation, when you type up what was said and ask for a summary or a plan, and only the words you choose go in. Morse's servers don't keep messages or log message content, and your chat history is stored only in your browser, encrypted (Morse privacy policy).

• E2EE, for notes you'd have locked down, with the AI still working. Your browser checks the enclave's hardware attestation before anything leaves your device, then encrypts the message so only that enclave can read it, and our servers relay text they can't read. The model still answers, which Lockdown can't offer. E2EE runs open-weight models only, without web search or image generation. The enclaves are run by third-party providers, not by Morse, and the protection rests on the enclave hardware and attestation working as designed. E2EE chats come with Pro, at $19 a month.
• Private, for everyday notes no company should keep. New chats start here. Open-weight models like DeepSeek, Kimi, and GLM, plus Grok, run in Private, and Morse has zero data retention agreements with its inference, search, and other providers, so they keep nothing. Where a provider confirms zero retention on each reply, Morse checks it and refuses a reply that doesn't.
• Anonymous, for GPT, Claude, or Gemini without your name on the request. Our proxy removes your account, email, and IP address and sends the message under Morse's own account. The provider sees the message without knowing it's you, and may keep it for a limited time to check for abuse, under its own policy, so leave out names you'd rather not share.

Whatever mode you pick, Morse doesn't train AI on your content, sell your data, or show ads, so there's no training switch to look for. Your history locks when you sign out, and opening it takes two keys, one that never leaves your device and one our server gives you at sign-in. Because we don't store chats, we usually have very little to give authorities. Clearing your browser or deleting your account deletes your chats, and Morse can't recover them, so keep a copy of anything you need.

So is Limitless private enough for you?

• Your archive: export it from the Data Exports tab now, while support runs through 2026, then decide whether to delete the account.
• Training and Meta: the December 2025 policy allows both, with no opt-out we could find. If that's a problem, stop recording.
• Encryption: only locked-down web and desktop meetings are end-to-end encrypted, and the AI can't use them. On Morse, E2EE chats still get answers.
• The people around you: say you're recording, turn the Pendant off when anyone declines, and delete what you shouldn't have kept.
• Health conversations: Limitless's terms ask you to keep health information out. Type sensitive notes into a Private or E2EE chat on Morse instead.

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