Telemetry and Model Improvement Settings

Claude Code supports environment settings for privacy-focused workflows.

Recommended Claude Code settings

Place these under env in ~/.claude/settings.json.

{
  "env": {
    "CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_FEEDBACK_SURVEY": "1",
    "DISABLE_TELEMETRY": "1",
    "DISABLE_ERROR_REPORTING": "1"
  }
}

These settings do not disable Claude Code. They reduce optional survey prompts, error reporting, and telemetry.

The cost of DISABLE_TELEMETRY

DISABLE_TELEMETRY also turns off feature-flag fetching. That makes Remote Control and its push notifications unavailable, along with other features that depend on feature flags. DISABLE_ERROR_REPORTING does not have this side effect.

If you want Remote Control, leave DISABLE_TELEMETRY out and keep the other two lines. The survey line matters in that case: surveys are already off while DISABLE_TELEMETRY is set, but not without it.

Setting DISABLE_TELEMETRY or DISABLE_ERROR_REPORTING to "0" or "false" still opts out. To turn either back on, delete the line.

DISABLE_NON_ESSENTIAL_MODEL_CALLS used to be part of this list. It no longer appears in the documentation or in the current CLI, so it has been removed.

Claude app privacy checklist

• Run /privacy-settings in Claude Code to view and update your privacy settings (Pro and Max plans).
• Review Location metadata.
• Review Help improve our AI models.
• Keep secrets out of prompts and deny .env access by default.