Let’s be honest. All of our WhatsApp conversations are a mess. Too many contacts and every contact has a additional number and some people who changed numbers and never bothered to intimate or update you. Its all a mess. So, over the years, Whatsapp has built these features that lets you help organize your Whatsapp chats better.
Archiving is a great feature that let’s you do that. The archive feature allows you to hide a particular chat or even a group, and keep it away from the chats list. Please note that Archiving a chat will not delete it at all. It just moves it to a different place and backs it up in iCloud. Oh, this is a trip. When you receive a message from a chat or a group that you have archived before, what happens is, that particular chat or group is unarchived.
So, Archiving is a great feature to save chats that are no longer active but you would like to cherish those memories of good conversations. Let’s see how to go about this whole archiving in Android, iOS and also in the WhatsApp web version.
How to Hide WhatsApp Messages in iPhone?
These are the steps to hide or archiving WhatsApp messages without deleting it in your iPhone. This app assumes you have been using WhatsApp and
Step 1: Open the WhatsApp application from your iPhone. Please note the steps may vary for Android and iOS smartphones.
Step 2: As soon as you open the app, you will find a list of senders who have messaged you and your replies for those messages. Among them, identify the sender whose message you would want to hide.
Step 3: After you find the sender, open the chat space of that specific sender and locate the individual message that you prefer to hide.
Step 4: Click on that message to be hidden and swipe to left. It will open a menu on the right side of the message as shown below. Among the options Archive and More, click on Archive option which is highlighted in blue.
Step 5: This has moved the message from the chat section to the Archive section.
Step 6: To view the hidden message, you should go to the chats tab and pull down over the chats. It will reveal a new option under the search bar called Archived Chats. Click on it and you will find the hidden message.
How to unarchive a chat in WhatsApp from iPhone?
Step 1: To unarchive the messages, click on the message and swipe to left. It will open a menu on the right side of the message.
Step 2: Click on Unarchive to remove it from the archive.
How to Hide WhatsApp Messages in Android Devices?
Step 1: Open the WhatsApp application from your Android smartphone
Step 2: As soon as you open the app, you will find a list of senders who have messaged you and your replies for those messages. Among them, identify the sender whose messages you would want to hide
Step 3: Long press on the chosen chat to select it. This will open a menu bar at the top of the page.
Step 4: In the menu bar, click on the Archive icon.
Step 5: This would hide the chat and move it to the Archive section. You will receive a notification as shown below.
How to unarchive a chat in WhatsApp from Android devices?
Step 1: To unarchive the messages, scroll down to the bottom of the chat screen. Tap on that Archived section which is shown below.
Step 2: It will take you to the Archive section where you have all the hidden or archived chats.
Step 3: In the archive section, long press on the chat which you prefer to unarchive. It would select the chat.
Step 4: Now click on the Unarchive icon which is opened in the menu bar at the top of the page. This would lead the chat to its initial position in your chats list.
How to Hide WhatsApp Messages WhatsApp web?
Step 1: Open your WhatsApp in your PC via WhatsApp web
Step 2: It will take you to the chats list in the WhatsApp. Place the cursor on the specific chat that you prefer to hide. The chat will show a dropdown arrow to its right as shown below
Step 3: Click on the arrow and a drop down arrow appears as shown below. Tap on the Archive chat option.
Step 4: You will receive a notification saying that chat is archived. In case if you have archived a chat by mistake and you realized it immediately, you could tap on Undo in the notification itself and the archived chat will go back to its normal state and the whole archiving is undone.
How to unarchive a chat in WhatsApp from PC?
Step 1: Click on the three dots on the upper right corner of chat list in WhatsApp web. I’m assuming you have already logged on to Whatsapp Web. If you are new to Whatsapp Web, its basically an extension of your smartphone whatsapp that connects via the same network. Please note that Whatsapp Web doesn’t work on its own. Its just a companion app.
Step 2: A drop down list will appear and in that menu, Click on the Archived option.
Step 3: It will take you to the Archived chats section. Click on the drop down arrow near the chat. From the drop down list, click on Unarchive chat. The chat is moved to its initial position in the chat list.
That’s about it. Its super easy to unarchive any chat.
So, that’s how you hide a chat from a list of the main chat in your WhatsApp Application. If you are doing this to handle your storage in the phone, you might want check out how to delete media content because most of the storage occupied by WhatsApp is mainly by photos, videos and documents. Please be aware of why you are archiving and see if it actually fits your purpose.
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