Social media is an application or website designed for interactions, creation, and sharing of ideas, interests, and information among people. This includes widgets, video sharing, podcasts, instant messaging, photo sharing, social networks, blogs, and others.
Social media allow people to communicate with friends, relatives, job opportunities, learn about work, advertise their business, develop careers, promote products, connect to customers, promote customer feedback, and so on.
WhatsApp is the most popular social media application that connects people from one country to another. It enables us to chat with our friends, family, and others within or outside our country. Though sometimes we don’t want others to access our WhatsApp chats for some reason, In this case, you can just hide your chats in WhatsApp through the archive feature. To hide and unhide WhatsApp chats you must follow some steps. Here, we have explained how to hide and unhide WhatsApp chats.
How to hide WhatsApp chat in the archive on your android phone
- Make sure you have data on your phone
- Open your WhatsApp application
- Select the conversations you wish to hide and tap on it just for 2seconds or till you see a mark symbols
- Once you highlight it, you will see this sign on the top of your right side just on it
- Once you click the down arrow the message you highlight will disappear from your chat, to see the message back just click on archived on the top of your chat.
How to unhide your WhatsApp chats
- Scroll up to the top of your chat and click archive chat
- Once it’s open, click the specific chat you want to unhide for just 2sec
- Click on the archive icon at the top
How can I hide all my chats?
- Open your WhatsApp application
- Select one of your chats by clicking it just for 2seconds or till you see a mark symbols
- Once you highlight it, click on the 3 dots at the top right side to select “select all” then click on the arrow sign you will see this sign on the top of your right side.
- Once you click the down arrow all your chats will disappear from your normal chat, to see the message back just click on archived on the top, you will now see all your chats.
How to unhide all your WhatsApp chats
- Scroll up to the top of your chat and click archive chat
- Once it’s open, click the chat and select all to unhide
- Click on the archive icon at the top by then all your chat will now be back to your normal page.
How to make your message disappear from your chat.
Some people want privacy, they don’t want others to see their private messages so don’t panic this article will guide you.
- Open your WhatsApp application
- Click on the person you wish to make your chatting disappear then, click on that person’s profile
- Scroll down on that person’s profile and you will see Disappearing messages, just click it.
- Then, select your message timer.
NOTE; when you enable this disappearing message, it will disappear on your chat and the person’s chat.
You can set a disappearing message for group chat if the group admin allows it.
How to hide your last seen, profile photo, about, and status on WhatsApp
Some people don’t want anyone to know their last seen on WhatsApp. If you are one of them just follow this step.
- Open your WhatsApp application
- Click the 3 dots at the top right side
- Select settings
- Click on Account
- Select privacy and you will who can see your personal info
Note: if you don’t share your last seen, you won’t be able to see other people’s last seen.
How to backup your WhatsApp messages and media to your google drive
Sometimes our WhatsApp chats can be very important to us or personal details that we don’t want to lose it. so, you can decide to backup all your chats to your Google drive.
- Open your WhatsApp application
- Click on the 3 dots on the right side of the page and select settings
- Click on the chats
- Click on the chat backup
Click on the backup to Google Drive and then select the method you wish to backup( it may be never, only when I tap back up, daily, weekly, or monthly.
How to restore your WhatsApp messages to your new phone
Once your backup was successful and later you want to restore it to your new phone or on the same phone.
- Make sure you have data on your phone
- Download the WhatsApp app from the play store
- Click on the WhatsApp app you just downloaded
- Input your phone number and click next a message will be sent to your registered phone number
- Input the number and click NEXT
- Once you click Next you will see Restore your messages and media, click it, and then your messages will start restoring.
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