WhatsApp is a popular chat app, with 1.5 billion people regularly reaching for it to message friends and family around the world. However, the quantity of conversations can soon add up over the years. WhatsApp has introduced a feature to treasure your messages – archive.
Archiving a WhatsApp chat makes it disappear from the main window, where they can be access and unarchive at any time.
Individual and group chats can be archived, but this can only be done with the full chat threads.
If new messages are received in the archived chat the conversation it is automatically unarchived.
WhatsApp doesn’t notify the other person of group if a conversation is archived.
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To archive a chat on iPhone, swipe from right to left on the chat, then press Archive.
To archive a chat on Android, tap and hold the chat, then from the options that appear, press the Archive icon.
You can easily archive all chats simultaneously if you want to completely empty your inbox without deleting the messages.
The Archiving All Chats is accessible via the Settings function.
Those belonging to large WhatsApp groups can experience the annoyance of constant alerts when you only wish to receive personal messages.
This is a problem WhatsApp appears ready to solve, with the testing of the Vacation Mode feature.
The soon-to-be released feature will be supported on iOS, Android and Windows Phone.
The Vacation Mode name implies the function will most likely be used by those wanting to relax on holiday but leaving it permanently enabled is also possible.
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Archived chats will still receive new messages, without being alerted to them.
The related Silent Mode function ensures the app badge counter isn’t updated by new posts in archived chats.
Facebook-owned WhatsApp is also working on a linked account feature, which would help recover passwords to other services and share status updates across platforms.