Whether your circle of friends has migrated over to a new messaging service or you're done with using it, there may come a time when you'll want to delete your WhatsApp account. When that time arrives, you'll want to make sure you've backed up your account and saved any essential or memorable chats before you do. Because otherwise once you tap delete, it's gone for good.
As with most apps for iOS, WhatsApp will backup all your pertinent account data to iCloud if set up properly. First off, make sure iCloud is set to sync your WhatsApp data, then follow the following steps to manually back up your account data.
While iCloud will easily back up all your WhatsApp account data, you've got a secondary option to archive chats if you want to declutter your chat screens or store a copy of your chats beyond iCloud. For starters, we'll stick entirely within the app and go over how to archive chat conversations.
Your entire conversation to that point will disappear from your active chats.
Archived chats can easily be accessed at any time and unarchived at will!
It's the file box with the up arrow to the right of the conversationYour selected archived chats will be restored to their rightful place among your active Chats screen.
If you ever want to save an epic group chat or the millions of silly awesome messages you've shared with your BFF, it's super easy to send an entire chat history to yourself as an email, AirDrop it to your computer, put it in a note, etc.
From here, you can fill out the info you need, or select any options you want, based on the type of export you selected.
Once you've got everything backed up and exported that you want to keep, it's time to delete your WhatsApp account.
Note: If you're planning to migrate your WhatsApp account to a new iPhone, do not delete your account on the old phone first. Doing so will delete all backup data from your iCloud, which will prevent you from restoring your account on your new phone.
And that's it — your WhatsApp account has been deleted. If there comes a time where you want to create a new account after going through the delete process, you'll have to start from scratch and create a new WhatsApp account on your iPhone. When you delete your Whats App account data, that includes all iCloud backups as well, so don't do that if you were planning on transferring your account and data to a new phone.
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Updated February 2020: Updated for the most recent version of WhatsApp on iOS.
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Heather Marston
November 4, 2021 (Updated: November 4, 2021)
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Going back and revisiting previous conversations that you've had with your friends is a comforting thing. Whether you want to find old conversations or your chats with particular contacts, there are several ways to find archived chat on Whatsapp.
In this article, I will show you how to make archived chats on WhatsApp and the way to view them. Let's move on!
Archive WhatsApp chats are a great choice if you have too much chat data on your device. It can help you free up your phone space and access them for future use. Let's see how to archive them in Android phones and iPhones below.
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The archive is a feature in WhatsApp that lets you store old chat to create more room for a new conversation.
Archiving a chat does not delete it from your phone, it stays in a special section that you can open and view whenever you want.
There are two ways to unarchive a WhatsApp chat on iPhone. One method is to swipe down on the chats screen, find Archived Chats, swipe to the left, and choose Unarchive. This will restore all the messages in this area.
The second way to do it is to perform a search. From the Chats screen, go to the Search bar and enter the contact’s name. If you have archived messages from this contact, they will appear here. Tap on their name and slide left to Unarchive.
Archiving or backup WhatsApp chats can help you save more space for your phone, and raise the running speed. If you don't want to archive chat on your phone, you can use iTransor for WhatsApp to backup it.
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Whatsapp is an application that we all actively use and thanks to which we save significant amounts on calls and SMS. Not surprisingly, the number of people who have downloaded it to their phones has already exceeded one billion. Today we will learn where the messages sent and received by us are stored, how to hide them from the screen, and also how you can view the archive in WhatsApp.
All messages received and sent using this service are exclusively on devices, and are deleted on the company's servers immediately after they reach the addressee. But what to do when there are too many chats on the screen? They can be archived, that is, temporarily hidden from the screen.
It's very easy to archive a WhatsApp chat. You can remove those chats that you do not use very often, as well as some group correspondence. Then, when necessary, you can view the archived chats and return them to the main page of the application again.
You should know that archiving in this case means only temporary hiding of correspondence with a person. In this way, you can neither save your correspondence as a backup copy, nor delete it.
You can read about how to delete an archive in WhatsApp in our other article.
On different phone models, archiving is carried out with slight differences. Below we will provide ways to archive and then search for archives on iPhone and Android. Keep in mind that when you receive a new message from a hidden contact, the archived chat will reappear on the screen.
Select the chat you want to hide and long press on it to bring up the menu at the top of the screen.
The archive icon looks like a white square with a green arrow pointing down inside. Touch it and the correspondence with this contact will be hidden.
To hide all chats at once, go to the WhatsApp menu and select settings. After opening the "Chats" item, tap the "Chat History" line, then "Archive all chats".
To find out what kind of conversations are hidden in your application, scroll to the end of your chat list and, when you see the inscription "Archived chats", tap it.
To hide all chats from the WhatsApp screen, go to the app settings and tap the "Chats" line. Select the "Archive all chats" option.
If you want to hide a conversation with a certain person from the screen, select the chat you want to hide and swipe it from right to left with your finger. From the options provided, select the "Archive" option.
You can understand where the WhatsApp archive is on your iPhone by simply scrolling through the list of chats to the end, and then sliding your finger down the screen.
When you see the inscription "Archive", click on it.
Several chats can be selected:
To learn how to transfer WhatsApp archive to another phone, you can read our other article.
If you want to extract the chat from the WhatsApp archive again, then the following instruction will be relevant for the iPhone:
You can also use another method:
To understand how to open and read the archive of messages in WhatsApp on Android, follow the instructions below:
To find out if you can access WhatsApp from another phone, read our other article.
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The function of creating WhatsApp archives is not known to all messenger subscribers. This article talks about the reasons why users decide to archive dialogs from the application and reveals the secrets that allow you to use the program's capabilities to the fullest.
Archiving WhatsApp chats allows you to collect little-used dialogs inside a separate built-in folder. Such an organization allows the subscriber to streamline the work in the application and sort information depending on the degree of importance and urgency.
An unlimited number of conversations can be stored inside the archive storage that you do not need to use too often. The reason for sending correspondence to the archive can be:
The main difference between archived conversations and regular correspondence is that archived conversations do not have sound or other notifications.
Calls and messages will be received in unlimited volume, access to view this information will remain extremely simple.
Recipients of messages from the archived chat will not be notified that the dialogue is located inside the repository. There is no special status for archival correspondence.
Next, let's look at ways to access viewing archived folders.
To open WhatsApp storage for Android, follow:
The procedure for iPhone devices is slightly different:
You can easily find the archive.
If the conversation is not very relevant for the user and prevents viewing more relevant information, you can hide the conversation in the archive.
iPhone sequence:
To perform a similar operation on Android, you need:
The same sequence of actions can be used for all dialogs that need to be removed from the main screen.
To fill the storage with rarely used chats, follow these steps on different devices.
Do the following for Android:
For iPhone, the procedure is as follows:
Move extra chats to the archive, then you can easily find them there.
To return the dialog to the normal screen on your smartphone, you must perform the following steps.
For iPhone, the order is:
