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Clear your WhatsApp chats quickly using this simple guide
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Trying to delete those old messages on WhatsApp? Fortunately, you can delete messages within 2 days of sending the message, which gives you much more time than previous versions of WhatsApp (like, you only had an hour to delete a message). Read on to learn how to delete that old message from your smartphone, tablet, or desktop computer.
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Open WhatsApp. It's a green app with a white phone and speech bubble icon. [1] X Research source- Use this method to delete a message you've sent in a group or one-on-one chat within the last two days. You can do this with Android, iOS, KaiOS, Web and Desktop, Windows, and Mac.
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Tap Chats . It's either at the bottom of the screen (iPhone) or the top of the screen (Android).- If WhatsApp opens to a conversation, you'll first tap the "Back" button in the top-left corner of the screen.
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Tap a conversation from which you want to delete a message. Doing so will open it. -
Tap and hold the message you wish to delete. This will prompt a pop-up bar of options either directly above the message (iPhone) or at the top of the screen (Android). [2] X Research source -
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Tap Delete for Everyone . After you get a confirmation that "This message was deleted," the message (or messages) will be deleted from the conversation. [5] X Research source- In order for the message to be deleted, you and everyone else in the group must be using the latest version of Whatsapp.
- Though you're deleting the message, the other people you're conversing with might have seen or screenshotted the message before it was deleted.
- You can tap Delete for Me if you don't want to delete the message for everyone in the conversation.
- Everyone in the conversation will see "Message Deleted" in place of your message.
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1. Open WhatsApp
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2. Tap the Chats
tab.
3. Tap and hold the chat you want to delete.
4. Tap Delete
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