Telegram was updated relatively recently with a rather interesting novelty: that of being able to delete your conversation history with someone both on your phone (nothing new around here) and in your interlocutor's (which is more curious). Today we are going to explain the simple followed that you must follow to do it. Forward.
How to delete your chat history on your interlocutor's phone
Telegram is undoubtedly the alternative preferred communication method for those who do not like WhatsApp, although it is also true that more and more are combining both services on their smartphones to use them interchangeably with different contacts -or when WhatsApp goes down, Clear… Ahem.
Precisely because of this popularity, we did not want to stop talking to you here about an option that was announced just two weeks ago and that allows a user delete all your chat history with a person, not only on your phone but also at the terminal of said contact. So, let's say a complete delete of the entire chat record is performed for the two people who participated in the chat.
Do you want to know how it is done? The followed You couldn't be more simple -they apply to both the Android and iOS app:
- Open your Telegram app on your phone and find the chat window you want to clean.
- Enter it and press the three dots in the upper right corner.
- Choose "Clear browsing data«.
- When the action window appears, check the box "Delete also for X" - where X is the name of your contact with whom you have had chat conversations.
- Tap on the red message “Delete history”. Ready.
As you can see, it is quite fast and easy to do and it will only take you a moment and a few clicks. Ideally, your interlocutor knows that you are going to delete all the history, although this is still advice from fair play on our part: And it is that, in reality, at no time do you need the consent of the other person to carry out this action, without a doubt the most controversy (and ugly) of this whole story.
Whether you want to or not, the person on the other end can decide to delete everything you've talked to them about without even giving you prior notice or being able to help it. According to Telegram, what is sought with all this is protect user privacy, which is, in the words of the service, "sacred." Allowing someone to perform these types of actions gives them the complete control of all your private chats to a new level, explains the company.
The ability to delete the chat history only available, yes, in the chats in which they participate two people; in groups, the function is only operational for the user in question who executes it, without sound to the rest of the members, who will continue to hold all the conversations.
What do you think of the new feature announced by Telegram? do you think it will be really useful for user interactions?