Remove someone from your home

Archive a member when you may bring them back. Forget a member only when you want to remove information that belongs to that person permanently.

Use this when someone moved out, joined by mistake, changed phones, or asks you to remove their Homie information.

This is a practical page. It focuses on the controls a normal household member needs, not on how Homie is built.

Start in household settings. Choose the member and decide whether you want a reversible archive or a permanent forget action.

- Open household settings and choose Members.

- Select the person you want to remove.

- Choose Archive if you only want them hidden from active household use.

- Choose Restore later if the archived person should come back.

- Choose Forget only when you want their member profile, personal connections, claimed devices, and private memories removed where Homie supports that cleanup.

- Review the confirmation carefully before permanent removal.

Use these controls when you want to correct Homie, reduce noise, or make the home match how the household actually works.

- Whether the member is active or archived.

- Whether a member should be restored.

- Whether connected personal accounts should stay for a future restore or be removed.

- Whether member-attributed memories should be wiped through the permanent forget action.

Homie should stay honest about what changed. If an action needs a trusted device, a claimed member, or an approval, it should say so before pretending the work is done.

- It will not quietly delete a person when a simple archive was chosen.

- It will not restore information that was permanently forgotten.

- It will not remove memories that belong to other members just because the wording mentions the removed person.

- It will not keep the removed person's devices claimed after a permanent forget.

Archiving is the safer first step because it hides the person from active household use while keeping the option to restore.

Permanent forgetting is intentionally stronger. Use it for privacy requests, duplicate members, or old profiles that should not remain connected to the home.

After making an operational change, do one small check. It is the easiest way to catch a wrong member, wrong device, stale link, or missing permission while the context is still fresh.

- Confirm the member list shows the expected status.

- Confirm their old phone no longer opens personal Homie as that person after a permanent forget.

- Search memory settings for the person's name if the removal was a privacy cleanup.

Read the privacy boundary before trying to fix behavior. Homie often behaves differently on a shared screen than on a claimed personal phone.

- Archive first when you are not sure.

- Use permanent forget for duplicate profiles and privacy requests.

- Ask the removed person to delete old bookmarks or saved home links too.

Most Homie issues come from setup, identity, or approval state. Work through these checks before assuming Homie ignored the request.

- Check whether you are on a shared household surface or a claimed personal phone.

- Ask Homie what it can see from this device before assuming memory is missing.

- Use explicit language such as keep this private, share this, remember this, or forget that.

Take care: Permanent forgetting is meant to be irreversible. Use archive when you only need to hide someone for now.

- Archive first when you are not sure.

- Use permanent forget for duplicate profiles and privacy requests.

- Ask the removed person to delete old bookmarks or saved home links too.

- Archive Alex from the household.

- Restore Alex.

- Forget the old Alex profile and its private memories.