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How to Hide a Chat in Telegram without Deleting

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Telegram has positioned itself as a safe and secure messaging app. Although your messages should be protected from modern security threats, you might have other privacy concerns. Whether you’d like to protect your messages from prying eyes or simply clean up your chat list, there are several ways to go about it.

Keep reading to learn how you can hide a Telegram chat without having to delete it.

How to Hide a Telegram Chat on an iPhone

When choosing the best route for hiding a Telegram chat, consider what you’d like to conceal. There are ways to hide previous conversations you no longer want anyone to see or individual messages within a conversation.

Hide a Telegram Chat by Archiving It

Archiving conversations on Telegram is the quickest way to organize your chats and remove inactive conversations. You can also archive chats to stop anyone from seeing them and ensure they don’t reappear when you receive a new message. Telegram lets you archive messages using two methods.

If you’d like to archive a single chat, group, or channel, you can do so in two simple steps:

  1. Swipe left on the conversation until three buttons appear over it.
  2. Select the “Archive” option.

Although you could repeat these two steps for every chat you’d like to archive, the second method is quicker and more convenient. To archive multiple conversations at once, do the following:

  1. Click “Edit” on the “Chats” screen.
  2. Check the conversations you wish to archive.
  3. Hit “Archive” at the bottom of your screen.

The selected chats will be filed in the “Archived Chats” folder. The folder will be pinned on top of your conversations. If you’d like to hide the folder, follow these steps:

  1. Swipe left on the folder.
  2. Tap the “Hide” button when it appears.

Now that you’ve hidden your chats, you might want to ensure they stay hidden. If you receive a new message in one of your archived chats, the conversation will reappear on the “Chats” screen. Only a muted conversation will stay hidden for as long as you like.

Here’s how to mute a conversation:

  1. Navigate to the conversation you want to mute.
  2. Click on the name at the top of the chat.
  3. Select the “Mute” option.
  4. Choose the duration.

If you’d like to disable notifications for that conversation permanently, choose the “Mute Forever” option.

Hide a Telegram Chat in Saved Messages

Telegram introduced the Saved Messages feature to help you bookmark important messages. However, you can also use it to hide individual messages from a conversation.

  1. Long-tap on the message you want to hide.
  2. Hit “Forward” on the pop-up menu.
  3. Select “Saved Messages.”

The chosen message will be sent away to a separate “Saved Messages” folder. But the message will also stay in the original chat unless you delete it. Follow these steps to delete a message:

  1. Long-press the message.
  2. Click on the trash can icon in the bottom-left corner of your screen.
  3. Tap “Delete.”

After choosing who to delete the message for, it will be hidden from your conversation. If you’d like to reread it, visit the “Saved Messages” folder at the top of your screen. Although you can’t hide this folder or retrieve the messages from it, it’s the only way to hide individual messages from a chat.

How to Hide a Telegram Chat on an Android Device

If you’re fond of using Telegram, you know that conversations can pile up quickly. Hiding them can help you restore order to your chat list, prioritize active conversations, and take care of your privacy concerns. You can choose between hiding chats one by one or in bulk, and whole conversation or only select messages.

Hide a Telegram Chat by Archiving It

Although Telegram introduced the Archive feature to help users organize their active and inactive conversations, it can also serve as an excellent privacy tool.

There are two ways to archive a Telegram chat. You can use the first when you want to archive an individual conversation or group.

  1. Locate the conversation you wish to hide.
  2. Swipe left on it to archive the conversation.

However, swiping will not work for archiving if you’ve set up Telegram folders on your Android. Additionally, you might want to archive multiple conversations at once. If that’s the case, the second method might serve you better.

  1. Long-press on the chat(s) you want to archive.
  2. Tap the three-dot menu icon in the top-right corner.
  3. Click “Archive.”

The “Archived Chats” folder will pop up on top of your chats. You can hide the folder by swiping left on it or pressing and holding until the “Hide above the list” option appears.

Your chats have now been safely tucked away, but not for long. A new message will take the conversation from the “Archived Chats” folder back to your regular chats. The only way to ensure an archived chat will stay hidden for as long as you like is to mute it.

Here’s how to disable notifications for a Telegram chat on your Android:

  1. Press and hold the chat.
  2. Click on the three-dot menu icon in the top-right corner.
  3. Select “Mute Notifications.”
  4. Choose how long to mute the chat for.

If you want your chat to stay hidden forever, choose the “Disable” option.

Hide a Telegram Chat in Saved Messages

Saved Messages is a helpful Telegram feature that allows you to save individual messages to a separate folder. You can use it to your advantage if you’d like to hide only some messages and not the entire conversation.

Follow these steps to save a Telegram message:

  1. Find the message(s) you want to hide.
  2. Press and hold the message.
  3. Hit the “Forward” button at the bottom right.
  4. Tap “Saved Messages.”

Once you’ve moved the message to the “Saved Messages” folder, you can delete it from the original conversation. To delete a Telegram message:

  1. Long-press the message.
  2. Click on the trash can icon in the top-right corner of your screen.
  3. Tap “Delete” in the pop-up window.

Note that you can neither move the saved message back to the conversation nor hide the “Saved Messages” folder.

How to Hide a Telegram Chat on a PC

Telegram stands out among its rivals as a cloud-based messenger app, meaning your chats sync across your devices. If you’ve taken steps to hide your conversations on your mobile app, your desktop app will follow suit.

In case you’re only using Telegram on your PC, you can still hide as many chats as you’d like by archiving them.

It doesn’t matter whether you’re using the Telegram app or Telegram Web, you can archive chats on your PC in two easy steps:

  1. Right-click the chat you wish to hide.
  2. Choose “Archive” from the menu.

The conversation will move to the “Archived chats” folder at the top of your chats on the left panel.

Remember that the chat will stay archived until you receive a message. If you’re anticipating new messages you wish to remain hidden in a chat, your best option is to mute that conversation.

  1. Right-click on the chat you wish to mute.
  2. Select “Disable Notifications.”
  3. Choose the mute duration.
  4. Press “OK.”

If you don’t want to deal with the chat again, set the mute duration to “Forever.”

Hide Away

Although deleting a chat is always an option, you may want to retain a conversation, but keep it out of your way. This guide has shown you how to hide an entire Telegram conversation or individual messages in a few taps and swipes. Give it a try and keep your account organized and your mind at ease.

Have you ever tried to hide a Telegram chat? How did you do it? Let us know in the comments section below.

Archived Chats, a New Design and More

Today's update gives you the tools to sort your messages with archived chats, a new design on Android and a handful of other nifty features to make the most of your messenger.

Everything in its place

Introducing archived chats, the new tool for spring cleaning in your chat list. Sort your active and inactive chats, separate personal stuff from work or banish annoying contacts to your archive for some spectacular revenge!

Swipe left on a chat to transfer it to your archived chats folder. When an archived chat gets a notification, it will pop out of the folder and back into your chat list. Muted chats will stay archived forever.

You can hide the archive by swiping left on it. See it again by dragging the screen down.

Pin an unlimited number of chats in your archive to keep your messages in the order you want. When chats pop out of your archive with a notification, you can archive them again to return them to their original place within the folder.

Bulk actions for a busy chat list

Time is money and money buys cat food, so don't waste time and make the most of the bulk actions in your chat list, now also available on Telegram for Android. Long tap on a chat to open the new menu where you can select multiple chats and then pin, mute, archive or delete them, all faster than ever before.

Android's new clothes

Telegram for Android got a lot slicker, starting with the app's new icon and down to every menu in the app sporting a new design.

New app icon

Slick new menus

Selecting messages in chats is now not only more stylish but also more functional – note the new quick forwarding button which appears right under your thumb:

More info at a glance

With the expanded chat list, you can see more text from the messages in your list. Simply select Three lines in the Chat Settings menu to see up to three lines per chat instead of the usual two.

Chat list view settings

Share and share a lot

Want to share a message far and wide? Pull up the new streamlined sharing menu to cover the entire screen and select your whole gang. And don‘t fret if you’re short on words, the comment field now supports emoji.

New sharing menu

The new design also makes it easier to share sticker packs.

New sticker pack viewer

You shall not pass

Meanwhile on iOS, passcode settings have been made more stylish and more robust to accommodate 6-digit codes, in addition to the previous 4-digit and custom alphanumeric options. Keep it secret, keep it safe .

Another new feature on iOS allows clearing your recently used stickers so nobody can prove how much you love sending funny dog stickers.

Clear recent stickers

We also thought that large emoji feel more natural without chat bubbles and made them look like little stickers instead. Aren't they cute?

New look for large emoji

Easier forwarding, links to messages, online badges

Ever selected the wrong chat when forwarding a message? Tap the message snippet above the text box before sending to change where the message is forwarded to.

Switch recipient

If you'd rather point to a particular spot in a conversation, you can now copy links to messages in private groups and channels – just like you could with public messages. Needless to say, links to private chats will only work for members of their respective communities.

Links to individual messages

Last but not least, you can now instantly see who's online from the chat list and sharing menu to find out who else might be watching cat videos in the middle of the night.

As always, stay tuned for more updates on all our platforms — we look forward to popping back out of your archive with the next version.

May 9, 2019
The Telegram Team

Telegram archive - what is it and how to use

Tanya Kopylova
May 24, 2022

How to use the Telegram archive on a smartphone How to use the Telegram archive on the desktop version Answers to frequently asked questions

Telegram archive is a special folder where you can send chats that are not needed on the main screen. This helps to clean up the general list, leaving only the most necessary in it. You can archive any personal chat, channel or group.

How it works:

  • you move the chat to the archive - only the most useful correspondence and channels remain on the main screen;
  • all archived chats are stored in a separate folder that can be accessed at any time;
  • new messages continue to arrive in chats that you have added to the archive, you can always read them.

I'll tell you how the Telegram archive works in the mobile and desktop versions of the messenger.

How to use the Telegram archive on your smartphone

Add chat to archive

In the general list, press and hold a chat until a menu with available commands appears at the top. Then click on the archive icon - the chat will be archived.

View archived chats and channels

If you have not used the archive function before, the archive folder will be available by default in the general chat list. Also, depending on your individual settings in the messenger, the Archive folder may be hidden. To see it, go to Telegram and drag down the list of chats with your finger.

The folder with the archive will appear on top, above the rest of the chats. Now you can go into it and view all archived correspondence, channels and groups.

A folder with an archive can be pinned to the general list. To do this, click on it and hold your finger. When the menu appears at the bottom, select "Pin to Chat List". Now the folder with archived channels and conversations will be displayed above the list of other chats.

Hide archive folder

You can hide the pinned archive at any time. To do this, click on the folder and hold your finger. When a menu appears at the bottom, click "Hide Above Chat List".

The archive folder will disappear.

How to return a chat from the archive

You can return the archived chat or channel to the general list at any time. To do this, go to the "Archive" folder. Select the chat you want to unarchive and click on it while holding your finger. A menu will appear at the top. Click on the extended list of commands - it's an icon with three dots on the right. Select Revert.

After that, the chat will reappear in the general list and disappear from the Archive folder.

How to use the Telegram archive on the desktop version

Archive a chat

Select the chat you want to archive and right-click on it. In the menu that appears, click "Archive".

View archive

On the desktop, the archive is displayed in collapsed or expanded form.

When collapsed, the folder looks compact - it's just the word "Archive" above the general list of chats. It also displays the number of unread messages inside the folder.

To expand the folder, right-click on the word "Archive" and select "Show".

When expanded, the archive folder looks the same as any of the chats.

You can collapse the folder again at any time if you prefer the compact look. To do this, right-click on the folder and select "Minimize" from the drop-down menu.

To view archived conversations, groups and channels, just go to the folder.

Also in the desktop version of Telegram "Archive" can be moved to the main menu of the account. To do this, right-click on the folder and select "Move to Main Menu".

Now the archive will be available not in the chat list, but in your profile menu. To enter it, click on the menu icon - three bars in the upper left corner. When the menu opens, select "Archive".

To return a folder from the main menu to the general chat list, right-click on "Archive" and select "Move to chat list".

Unarchive a chat

To move a chat to the general list, go to the "Archive" folder and right-click on the desired chat. In the drop-down menu, select "Restore from archive".

Answers to frequently asked questions

Chat itself returned from the archive. Why?

If you archived a chat with notifications turned on, such chat will be displayed in the general list again when new messages appear in it.

Chats that have notifications disabled will be stored in the Archive folder until you manually retrieve them from there.

Chat archived itself. How did it happen?

Perhaps you added the chat to the archive yourself and did not notice. This happens if you accidentally swipe the chat to the left instead of just clicking on it. In the Telegram settings, the action "Swipe left" can be equated to "Add to archive".

Here's how to fix it.

In the mobile version of Telegram, go to the main menu - three bars in the upper left corner. Once you're on your profile, go to "Settings" - "Chat Settings".

Scroll down to the Swipe Left in Chat List box. Here you can choose what action is taken when you swipe the chat to the left.

Several options available:

  • read;
  • archive;
  • turn off the sound;
  • delete;
  • change folder;
  • to fix.

If you leave the default action as "Archive", just check the "Archive" folder from time to time - you may have sent some important chat there by accidental swiping.

The chat is archived, and new messages in it are displayed in the list of folders. This is fine?

Yes, that's fine. Adding a chat to an archive does not automatically remove it from the folder. Correspondence, channel or group disappears only from the main list of chats. Inside folders, chats continue to be shown, and a counter of new messages is displayed in the left folder menu.

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The archive in Telegram is a kind of storage that many do not know about. Let's figure out what an opportunity is and where to look for it. We will also learn how to use it on a smartphone - add channels and remove them.

What is it, you know? This is a built-in messenger feature that allows you to remove some dialogs, groups or channels. A very relevant option in the modern world, when we are surrounded by an incredible amount of information. You can hide chats for a while and not receive notifications - while the information received is kept intact.

The definition is clear, but where is the archive in the Telegram? You will see it on the main screen in the "Chats" section, but only if you decide to use the storage!

Let's try to start using this option? To understand how to find the archive in the Telegram, you need to add a chat there:

  • Open the Telegram messenger;
  • Find an unwanted group or channel, conversation;
  • Swipe it from right to left until the box icon appears;
  • Click the Archive icon. Ready!

Instruction is suitable for both iPhone and Android. If you use the desktop version, you need:

  • Open the program;
  • Find correspondence in the menu on the left;
  • Right-click and select Archive Chat.

Now you will find out where the archive is in Telegram! Look at the top of the screen - you will see a line with a familiar box. On smartphones, you need to slightly pull the screen down to open the vault.

Now let's get to the controls! You need to remember a few simple steps, but first click on the box to open the vault.

On iPhone, swipe left to access these actions:

  • Pin dialog;
  • Pull the chat back to the main screen;
  • Delete (leave the conversation and remove it from all screens).

If you hold down the title, you can select the following actions:

  • Mark as read;
  • Enable notifications.

An interesting fact is that you can archive an unlimited number of chats.

On Android, you should act like this:

  • Swipe left to see the "Unzip" button and get the channel back;
  • Long press the name of the conversation to see the items "Delete" and "Pin", "Mark as read" and "Turn on notifications".

Don't think about how to restore a chat from the archive in Telegram on your computer! All actions are available if you right-click on the name of the dialog.

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