Help Article | How to archive or unarchive a chat or group

The archive chat feature allows you to hide an individual or group chat from your chats list to better organize your conversations.

• Archiving a chat doesn’t delete the chat or back it up to your SD card.
• Archived individual or group chats will stay archived when you receive a new message from that individual or group chat.
• You will not receive notifications for archived chats unless you are mentioned or replied to.

1. In the CHATS tab, tap and hold the chat you want to hide.
2. Tap
   
    at the top of the screen.

1. In the CHATS tab, tap More options
   
    > Settings.
2. Tap Chats > Chat history > Archive all chats.

1. Scroll to the top of the CHATS screen.
2. Tap
   
   Archived.

The number next to

Archived indicates how many archived individual or group chats have unread messages.

1. Scroll to the top of the CHATS screen.
2. Tap
   
   Archived.
3. Tap and hold the individual or group chat you want to unarchive.
4. Tap Unarchive at the top of the screen.

To change the default settings so archived chats unarchive when new messages are received and remove

Archived from showing at the top of your chats list:

1. In the CHATS tab, tap More options
   
    > Settings
2. Tap Chats.
3. Turn off Keep chats archived.

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