How to delete your WhatsApp messages forever
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If you are one of those who use WhatsApp at all hours and to communicate with almost everyone, it is most likely that smoke will come out of your chats . And is not for less.
In recent years, we have started to use this courier service as a daily bread. So much so that when it fails for technical reasons, there is a high probability that the world will collapse Yes, they are first world problems. But problems after all.
Today we want to help you simplify your life.And in short, to delete all WhatsApp messages that no longer interest you If you delete them, you will leave the conversations clean and you will be able to forget, not only the messages. But also all those files that are uselessly taking up the memory of your device.
Do you want to know how to do it? It's so easy that you can do it in three steps. Read on to find out.
How to delete your WhatsApp messages forever
It's a very simple gesture. So if you apply it to all those chats in which there are messages and files that are no longer interesting to you, you will save a good bit of space. And this never hurts. QTo get started, update your WhatsApp application. This will ensure that the tool has all the features you need.Then do the following:
1. Open WhatsApp as you usually do. What we want now is access the conversation or conversations whose messages you want to delete forever.
2. Access the chat in question by clicking on it. Once inside, you will have to go to the More option, which is the icon of the three points that appears in the upper right part of the screen. Touch here to activate the options menu.
3. If you don't see the option to delete your WhatsApp messages it's because you have to touch More. More options will be activated and you will have to choose Empty chat.
4. Next, a new screen will appear in which you will be asked the following: Delete messages from this chat? Just below, you will have two options that you can mark or uncheck at your discretion.
The first, very important, is the following "Keep messages starred." This will come in handy if you want to get rid of the chat, but still need to save the most important messages If you've bookmarked them, be sure they won't disappear.
If you don't mind deleting everything (including messages you marked as important) uncheck this option. In this case, WhatsApp will delete absolutely everything. If you have no messages marked as important, the entire conversation will also be deleted.
You can also delete media files
The second option is "Delete multimedia files from my phone" and it is useful, because it also allows us to take advantage of this action to clean of everything that they have sent us or that we have sent.And that it's taking up space on your phone for no reason.
If you want to delete the conversations, but you want to keep the multimedia files that have been sent to you (photos, videos, documents, etc.) you will have than uncheck this option. When you kill the chat content, they will still be saved in the gallery of your device. Be clear, though, that they will disappear from the conversation.
If you agree with all this, just click on Empty The chat screen will be clean and in principle, all messages and content that your contacts have sent you (those of that specific conversation) will have been deleted forever. Keep in mind that you will not be able to recover them. The actions you take in this regard will be irreversible.