If you think Copilot/Gemini chats are actually deleted, try this exact test.
I recorded the whole process — here is my test video:
Do these steps exactly the same way:
**1. Create a new AI prompt.
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Delete it.
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Go to Google Drive and empty the trash.
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Wait about 5 minutes.**
At this point it looks like everything is permanently deleted.
5. Now open this page:
https://support.google.com/drive/answer/1716222?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop
6. Click the ‘Request file recovery’ button.
For me, the “permanently deleted” AI file comes back into Drive,
and the deleted chat link works again — the server responds and the model answers.
This means:
the deletion is NOT real — it only hides the chat from the interface,
but everything stays in the background.
Try it yourself — you will see the same thing.
This is a massive data‑handling problem.