CLEAN up your WhatsApp today by learning how to archive chats.
This will hide the chats from the main part of your WhatsApp.
Archiving chats is a great way to clean up your WhatsApp and keep it more organised.
But note: archiving a chat isn’t the same as deleting it.
And it won’t back it up to external storage either.
The archived chat will remain archived when you receive a new message in the group.
And you won’t received any notifications for archived chats – unless you mentions you or replies to you.
You can unarchive a chat at any time.
How to archive WhatsApp chats
It’s possible to archive any type of WhatsApp chat.
Go to the Chats tab and then tap and hold a chat.
Tap the box icon with an arrow facing downwards.
This will archive the chat.
You can also archive all chats.
Go to Settings, and then choose Chats > Chat History > Archive All Chats.
How to unarchive WhatsApp chats
To view your archived chats, scroll to the top of the main Chats page and tap the Archived button – with a downwards-arrow symbol.
You can unarchive chats from here.
Simply head into your Archived chats, and then tap and hold on a chat of your choice.
Then tap Unarchive at the top of the screen.
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