How to Delete Chats Archived in WhatsApp from Android?

It is generally believed that chats archived on Whatsapp they are deleted or in a space similar to the trash can. The truth is that this is not the case and it is simply hidden from the general view of the application. So, if you find yourself in the need to delete these chats, you have to know the correct way to do it.

Is it possible to delete all archived chats in the app?

If you can do it and there are two methods for it: the first is by accessing the chats section archived in WhatsApp and the other in the conventional way. To be more specific, consider the following:

This way you can delete all archived chats

To directly delete the chats that are archived, you have to access the application from your phone or use the web application. Then do the following:

• Enter the messages option or archived Whatsapp chats. It usually comes out at the beginning of the conversation.
• After you enter that new section, press and hold the chat you want to delete.
• You wait for the trash can icon in the upper right corner to be enabled
• If you have more than one chat, just select all the ones you want to delete and click on the trash can icon.

Steps to delete a specific chat

1. You are going to enter the archived chats section
2. We select the chat to delete, hold down for a couple of seconds
3. When it’s shaded and the trash can icon is enabled, select it.

Deleting a specific chat can be done from the whatsapp web application. To do this, you will follow exactly the same steps, with the difference that you will select a down arrow that appears at the end of the chat (before entering it) and display the option menu. When you do, you select Delete Chat and you’re done.

What is the difference between deleting and archiving a conversation?

The big difference is that one does not delete the chat, while the other does. But to see it in more detail, we will explain it to you as follows:

These are the characteristics of deleting a chat

• They are completely removed from the application
• They cannot be recovered unless the recovering from a backup
• The process is not reversible

Main features of archiving a chat

• They can be removed from the main chat list, but later retrieved very easily
• They are not completely eliminated, but go into a stealth mode in which they are not seen with the naked eye
• The process is reversible
• No information is lost, that is, audios, videos or images sent and / or received are not deleted.
• You can recover archived WhatsApp chat in very few steps

How can you hide the archived chats section in WhatsApp?

While it is true that it is a bit annoying to maintain the archived chat optionIt’s right in the sight of anyone. You can do something quite simple as follows:

1. You will open the application and you will go to the 3 points that are in the upper right part of your screen
2. Among all the options, you will choose Settings and when you change the window with its options, you will select Chats.
3. Here you only have to locate one of the options at the bottom that refers to Keep Chats Archived. You will notice that there is a kind of button that you can enable or disable

Once you have disabled it, archived chats option it will be located at the end of all the chats that you have active instead of being first and in the sight of anyone who enters your WhatsApp. The good thing is that this process applies as is to recover archived chats in Messenger.

What should I do to recover a deleted conversation?

As you can imagine, you cannot recover one conversation deleted unless you’ve made a manual backup of your conversations in WhatsApp.

Backup a chat before deleting it

For make a backup, You have to go to the application settings and there, do what we will mention shortly, but not before telling you that the backup copies can be done through the native configuration of the phone, or through other third-party applications.

• Select the three points in the upper right corner
• Choose the settings option
• Then go to the Chats option
• Down until you find the backup option
• Choose Save to create a backup of all the files and conversations that you have up to that moment.

You also have the option of make a general level backup on your phone, but the downside to this is that it will take a bit longer since it will save information from other applications. What if you have the great advantage that after having deleted the archived messages from Facebook, you have the possibility of recovering them.