To delete a message on Telegram, you can either do it in a regular chat with a friend or colleague, or in a group chat with many users. ..
How Telegram Stores Your Message History
If you’ve recently switched to Telegram for security and privacy reasons, you first need to understand how it stores your chat history, as well as how you can erase it.
Telegram is a messaging app with two types of chats: normal and cloud chats. Cloud chats are the chats between you and other users, group chats, and public channels. They’re stored in the cloud, which allows you to seamlessly use Telegram on different devices, since your chat history can be easily downloaded. ..
If you want to keep your chats private and secure, then you should use secret chats on Telegram. Secret chats are encrypted between only the sender and recipient, and never leave a server. ..
How to Delete Cloud Chat Messages on Telegram
To delete a message from a chat:
- Open the chat app on your device.
- Tap the three lines in the top left corner of the chat window.
- Type “delete” and press enter.
To delete messages from a Telegram chat, follow these steps:
- Open the chat by clicking on the icon in the top left corner of the chat window.
- Type “delete” into the chat box and click on the “Delete message” button.
- The message will be deleted from the chat and all other messages in that chat will be preserved.
When you’re finished, the message will be gone from either just your device, or from both your and the recipient’s devices, as well as the Telegram server.
If your chat has more than 2 participants in it, you can still delete the messages that you already sent from everyone’s devices. However, there’s a time limit. You can only do it within 48 hours after sending the message. After those 48 hours, you can still delete your message, but from your device only. The message will remain on other participants’ devices, as well as on the Telegram server.
If you’re using an old version of Telegram, even if it’s a one-on-one chat, the 48-hour rule still applies. If you delete a message for everyone in that chat, it won’t be counted as a successful message deletion.
If you send a message to someone and have less than 48 hours since you sent it, the only way to completely erase it is to ask them to delete it from their devices. After that, the message will also disappear from the Telegram server.
How to Delete Messages in Secret Telegram Chats
Secret chats offer a more private way to communicate with friends and family. To open a secret chat with someone, select their username on Telegram, then select More (three vertical dots in the upper-right corner) > Start Secret Chat. ..
To erase a message in a secret chat, open the chat and select More. Then select Set self-destruct timer. You can then choose how long the recipient will have until the message disappears from the chat. ..
If you want to keep your chat secret, set the self-destruct timer. It will automatically disappear after a set time, and it’ll also disappear on your device and the server.
How to Auto-Delete Messages From Telegram Chats
To set your messages to automatically disappear after a certain period of time in any chat on Telegram, follow these steps:
- Open the chat app and sign in.
- Click on the three lines in the top left corner of the chat window.
- On the left side, you’ll see a list of chats. Choose one of them and click on the three lines in the top left corner of the chat window to change its settings.
- In this case, we’re going to set our messages to automatically disappear after a certain period of time. To do so, we’ll need to click on the three lines in the top left corner of the chat window and select “auto-delete after X minutes.” The default value for this setting is 10 minutes, but you can change it if you want to have a longer or shorter timeout period for your messages.
You can choose your messages to disappear either after 24 hours, 7 days, or in 1 month after you send them.
How to Delete Entire Chats in Telegram
If you want to end a conversation on Telegram, open the app and select it. Then select the bin icon on top of the screen. You’ll see a pop-up message asking whether you only want to delete the chat for yourself, or for both you and the recipient. If you choose the latter, the chat will disappear from both your devices and from the Telegram server.
Don’t Forget About Push Notifications
If you accidentally send a message to someone and want to delete it, you can do so by going to their account settings and clicking on the “Unsend” button. This will take you to the Gmail Unsend page, where you can select which message you want to unsend.
If you want to send a message to someone, but don’t want them to see it in their notifications, you can try disabling push notifications on their device. However, depending on their settings, the recipient might see the contents of your message even if you’ve already deleted it.
Get Rid of Your Telegram Messages for Good
If you want to erase all of your messages from Telegram, there are a few things you can do. First, make sure you delete all of your conversations for yourself and for other users as well. If you don’t want Telegram to store any of your messages, make sure you also delete all of your messages.
Are you considering deleting all of your messages from Telegram? What option do you use to delete messages from the app? Share your experience in the comments section below. ..
