{"id":11390,"date":"2017-05-25T09:00:45","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T13:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/?p=11390"},"modified":"2018-05-22T13:46:21","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T17:46:21","slug":"clear-whatsapp-history-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/clear-whatsapp-history-android\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Clear WhatsApp History on Your Android"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp is designed to store your chat history so you don\u2019t lose anything that you wanted to keep. But when this history takes up too much space on your phone, it\u2019s important to know how to clear your history, too. The best way to stop WhatsApp from taking up too much space on your phone\u2019s memory is by using WhatsApp Cleaner. Click here to clean out WhatsApp and make more room on your phone:<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"psafe:\/\/launch\/whatsapp_photo_cleaner\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11266\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11266\" src=\"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/clean-whatsapp-photos-300x56.jpg\" alt=\"clean-whatsapp-photos\" width=\"300\" height=\"56\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/clean-whatsapp-photos-300x56.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/clean-whatsapp-photos.jpg 427w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">WhatsApp Cleaner helps you select and delete files you don\u2019t want anymore and will show you how much space you can save by deleting unnecessary WhatsApp files, photos, and messages, allowing you to quickly remove them. You can also choose which files, and from which date, you want to remove, in case you want to keep an old photo or two. But if you\u2019re ready to make a clean sweep of WhatsApp, the app itself also has several ways that you can get rid of your history entirely. The following will talk about a few of your other options.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Read More:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/use-whatsapps-version-snapchat\/\"><b>How to Use WhatsApp\u2019s Version of Snapchat<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>How to Delete Your Entire Chat History <\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Note: If you\u2019re choosing this option, be aware that most of your messages won\u2019t be saved. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Navigate to WhatsApp\u2019s \u201cSettings\u201d and then click on \u201cMedia Settings.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From there, scroll to the bottom of your screen. There, you\u2019ll find two options: \u201cDelete all conversations\u201d and \u201cClear all conversations.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you want to delete messages and conversations, click on \u201cDelete all conversations.\u201d If you choose this option, your chats will still be available in your \u201cChats\u201d list.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you want to delete messages but keep your conversations, click on \u201cClear all conversations.\u201d Your conversations will still be on your \u201cChats\u201d list.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><b>How to Delete an Individual or Group Chat <\/b><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Navigate to \u201cChats\u201d on the WhatsApp main page.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tap and hold the chat that you want to delete, or, if you want to delete many chats, you can click on \u201cSelect More\u201d on the right-hand side of the screen and tap on multiple chat rows that you want to be eliminated.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Once you\u2019ve selected the chat or chats you want to be deleted, click \u201cDelete\u201d at the bottom of the right-hand side of your screen.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Click \u201cDelete chat\u201d to confirm your request.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">WhatsApp files can accumulate quickly, as the app\u2019s settings program it to save nearly everything. To save space on your Android, you should regularly use WhatsApp Cleaner and one of these above methods to eliminate files you don\u2019t need anymore.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp chat history can take up a lot of space on your Android. When WhatsApp is taking up too much memory, use one of these methods to clear your history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[30,301,303,308,312,3319,415],"class_list":["post-11390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-performance","tag-android","tag-app2","tag-app3","tag-app6","tag-app8","tag-social-network","tag-whatsapp-cleanup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18696,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11390\/revisions\/18696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}