Microsoft Teams is a versatile platform that allows users to integrate with Microsoft apps effectively. It also provides a chat platform for easy communication among team members. However, there may be times when you need to delete a chat from your list. The question is, how do you do it?
Unfortunately, Microsoft Teams doesn’t give you the option to delete an entire chat with someone and clear its entire history. If a chat is no longer relevant for what you need to do, you may choose to hide it from your chat list. To do this on the app’s desktop interface, open your chat interface by clicking on the chat icon to the left after logging in. Then, mouse over the chat you want to hide and click on the triple dotted icon that pops up. Select hide, and the chat should disappear from your channel list until someone messages it again.
If you don’t want to receive any future notifications from this chat, you can opt to mute it from the same menu. If you ever need to bring it back, just search for a participant’s name or the chat in your search box.
If you want to clear an individual message, you’re more than free to delete your own. Just find the message you want to delete and mouse over it. Click on the triple dotted icon that pops up for more options, select delete, and your message will be gone. However, if you need to delete another person’s messages or posts, you can only do so with administrator privileges assigned to you.
If you’ve got the right permissions assigned to you, you can also delete a channel in its associated chat once it has served its purpose. Just open the channel, click on the triple dotted icon next to its name, and select delete this channel. Though you’ll lose its entire conversation history, OneNote sections associated with that channel will still show up on your team’s SharePoint site.
If you can’t find a delete option at all, the option to do so may be disabled by administrators for transparency reasons. For further assistance, you may want to contact them.
In conclusion, deleting Teams chat is possible, but it requires certain steps. You can hide a chat, mute it, or delete your own message. However, if you need to delete another person’s messages or a channel, you need to have administrator privileges. We hope this guide has been helpful to you.