If you managed to keep your WhatsApp history intact for years, you may have an overwhelming number of open conversations in the Chats tab. A good way to clean Marie Condo, but without throwing anything away, whether you like it or not. archive conversations.
WhatsApp allows us archive chats to eliminate them without deleting them. It works in the same way as archiving other apps and social networks, such as Instagram, although finding the button in question may not be as intuitive as we would like, especially for those who have never used it. done before.
How to Archive WhatsApp Messages
WhatsApp keeps all the conversations we have opened in the chat tab, but maybe you don’t want to keep the 2012 chat with your cousin there. A half solution to delete it and keep it is to archive it
When a chat is archived, it’s still accessible from the Archived folder at the top, but it doesn’t appear among chats. Archiving a chat is very easy, if you know where the specific button is and the best thing is that anytime you can repent and get it back.
WhatsApp chats are archived directly from the conversations view, i.e. not from the specific chat. These are the concrete steps to archive a chat whatsapp:
- Enter the WhatsApp Chats tab.
- Locate the conversation you want to archive and long press it until Selection Mode opens.
- Press the box button with a down arrow (archive).
- This will archive the message. You may regret a few seconds pressing Cancel. If you don’t tap it in time and want to unarchive the chat, we’ll tell you how to do it below.
How to Unarchive WhatsApp Messages
As soon as you archive your first WhatsApp message, you will see at the top, in the Chats tab, a folder called Archived. By tapping it, you can return to conversations you’ve archived, access conversations, see if they have new messages, and reply to them, as always.
You don’t need to unarchive a chat to reply, but if you want to unarchive a chat, the process is just as easy for archiving. It is necessary to make a long press on the conversation and, once it is selected, press the button of the box with an arrow up (unarchive).
This will return the chat to the WhatsApp Chats tab and it will be placed in the corresponding place, according to the date of the last message of said conversation. These are the singles steps to recover archived whatsapp chat:
- In WhatsApp, enter the tab Cats.
- Press on archiveabove all.
- Do a long touch on the conversation you want to recover.
- Press the button in the box with an up arrow (unarchive).
Prevent archived chats from being unarchived
when i join you a new reply to a conversation you saved in whatsapp there are two things that can happen: it gets automatically unarchived or it stays archived but it shows the number of unread messages as a number next to archive.
This is so because WhatsApp alwhether or not to keep archived chats, even if they receive new messages. In the past, chats we archived were always unarchived when they received a new reply, but today this should no longer be the case.
If you want what happens in WhatsApp archived chats to be kept in archived chats, you need to enable Keep chats archived, in WhatsApp Chat settings. It is done like this:
- In WhatsApp, tap the menu button ⋮
- Press on Settings.
- Come into Cats.
- Enable Keep chats archived.
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