How to Hide WhatsApp Chat Messages
How to Hide WhatsApp Chat Messages

How to Hide WhatsApp Chat Messages

How to Hide WhatsApp Chat Messages on the Messaging Platform

By long-pressing or swiping on your discussion, you can hide a WhatsApp chat thread.

You are archiving rather than destroying your communication history by hiding it. Conversations that have been archived, like those that have been concealed, can be restored.

WhatsApp is currently one of the most popular encrypted messaging platforms. The Meta-owned app has over 2 billion users worldwide, despite not having the same attraction among US users as other platforms.

With that level of popularity, the number of conversations for the average user may grow to the point where you need to manage them. Either the volume of discussions gets unmanageable to navigate, or you no longer engage with people on the app. In any event, here’s how to back up and restore WhatsApp messages.

A brief tip: When you get a new message in a conversation, it is archived by default. You can change this in the app’s settings.

How to Hide WhatsApp Messages on an iPhone

You can hide your chat messages on an iPhone in a couple of ways:

  • Long-press the conversation you want to hide and select Archive from the pop-up menu that appears.
  • Swipe the chat from right to left until Archive appears; releasing at this point will archive the chat.

You can also archive all of your chats at once by going to Settings, Chats, and then Archive All Chats.

Tp recover an archived chat tap the Archived button and swipe left on the chat you want to recover. If you don’t see this option, you don’t have any archived chats.

How to hide WhatsApp chats on Android

On Android, you can only archive WhatsApp chats by selecting the Archive option after long-pressing on the chat you want to hide.

The button for Archive will be highlighted.

By tapping the Archived button at the top of the conversations list, you can restore an archived chat in the same way you did on your iPhone.

Long-press the chat you want to restore, then hit the Unarchive button at the top of the screen.

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