How to archive and unarchive WhatsApp chats

CLEAN up your WhatsApp today by learning how to archive chats.

This will hide the chats from the main part of your WhatsApp.

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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.

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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