The instant messaging app Telegram allows users to exchange messages and communicate via calls, much like WhatsApp. However, it also offers some “unique” features, such as the ability to delete messages for both the sender and the recipient at any time. It also lets you delete messages based on their date.
Delete messages by date in Telegram
Telegram offers users complete control over their online chat history and allows them to delete any message in a chat. Using the delete messages by date feature, Telegram users can delete all chat history in a chat belonging to a specific day or date range. It is also important to note that this feature is only available for one-on-one Telegram chats and not for groups.
Here's how to delete Telegram messages by date
- Open the Telegram app on your Android or iOS device .
- Go to the conversation from which you want to delete messages by date.
- Tap on the date bar that appears when you scroll through the conversation.
- Long press the date you want to delete messages for.
- Select the Clear history option from the drop-down menu that appears.
- After that, tap the Confirm button available in the pop-up menu.
You can also choose to delete these messages from a specific day and for the recipient. To do this, simply tap on the 'Delete for' checkbox and tap the confirm button.
Deleting conversations by date can be useful when you don't want to keep conversations from specific days. Apart from that, you can also set messages in a conversation to automatically delete after a day, a week, or a month.
Information source: gadgetsnow.com
