How to recover archived chat in whatsapp

WhatsApp is undoubtedly the most popular messaging app. It also duly updates it which keep adding features. However, in spite of its many features, there’s still something missing from it that is available in other apps like Telegram and Hike – a secret chat or the ability to hide specific chats from prying eyes.

While WhatsApp recently introduced fingerprint lock for its Android app and offers Touch ID and Face ID lock for iPhones, there’s no way to lock or hide a specific chat. Still, we can use an in-built feature to hide the chat from the home screen.

How to hide a chat in WhatsApp

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• Open WhatsApp and look for the chat that you want to hide.
• Long press the chat that you want to hide.
• Now, click on the archive button at the top right corner to hide the chat.

Apple iPhones

• Open WhatsApp and look for the chat that you want to hide.
• Now, right swipe on the chat and click the ‘Archive’ button.
• The chat is now archived and no longer visible in your chat list.

How to unhide a chat in WhatsApp

Android devices

• Open WhatsApp and scroll down to the bottom of the chats.
• You will see an ‘Archived’ option. Click on this to see the chats that you have archived.
• Now, long press on the chat that you want to unarchive and click on ‘Unarchive chat’ button at the top right corner.

Apple iPhones

• Open WhatsApp and go to the top of the chat list.
• Now, pull down and you will get the ‘Archived Chats’ option.
• Top on the ‘Archived Chats’ option and right swipe on the chat that you want to unarchive.
• Now, tap on ‘Unarchive’.

It must be noted that if you receive a message after you have archived the chat, the chat will get unarchived and will be visible in the chat list.

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The archive chat feature allows you to hide an individual or group. Here is a step by step guide you can follow to archive or unarchive WhatsApp chat or group using Android.

Steps you can follow to archive or unarchive WhatsApp chat or group | Represenatational image

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WhatsApp provides you an option to hide your chat without deleting it. The feature is called Archive chats. Once you archive a chat, it hides from the main view. This means you can hide a conversation from your WhatsApp Chat screen and access it later if needed.

The archive chat feature allows you to hide an individual or group chat from your chats list to better organize your conversations. Here is a step by step guide you can follow to archive or unarchive WhatsApp chat or group using Android.

How to archive a chat or group using Android

Here is a step by step guide you can follow to archive a chat or group using Android.

Step 1: Open WhatsApp on your Android device.

Step 2: In the Chats tab, tap and hold the chat you want to hide.

Step 3: Tap Archive icon on the top of the screen.

From the above-given steps, you can easily archive a chat or group using Android. Now, if you want to archive all your chats then you can follow the below-given steps.

How to archive all your WhatsApp chats

Here is a step by step guide you can follow to archive all your WhatsApp chats.

Step 1: Open WhatsApp on your Android device.

Step 2: Next in the Chats tab, tap More options icon (three dots).

Step 3: From the given options tap Settings.

Step 4: On the new page tap Chats> Chat history > Archive all chats.

To view archived chats or groups you need scroll to the bottom of your Chats screen and after that tap Archived. You can unarchive a chat or group anytime. Here is a step by step guide you can follow unarchive WhatsApp chat or group.

How to unarchive WhatsApp chat or group

Follow below-given steps unarchive WhatsApp chat or group

Step 1: Open WhatsApp on your Android device.

Step 2: Next scroll to the bottom of the Chats screen and tap Archived.

Step 3: You need to tap and hold the chat or group that you want to unarchive.

Step 4: On the top bar, tap the Unarchive icon.

That particular chat or group will be unarchived on WhatsApp. Note that archived chats will reappear when you receive a new message from that conversation.

(Source: WhatsApp website)

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