Hide or delete a conversation

You can hide or delete the history of a direct message conversation in Google Chat and Gmail.

• Hide conversation—Removes your copy of a conversation. It doesn't remove the conversation from other participants' views. If you hide a conversation and then chat with that person or group again, your chat history reappears (if it's turned on).
• Delete conversation—Permanently deletes your copy of a conversation's history. It doesn't delete the conversation from other participants' history.

Hide a direct message conversation

 

You can hide a direct message conversation from your Chat or Gmail view, including group conversations with 2 or more people.

1. Go to Google Chat or your Gmail account.
2. On the left, next to the person's name or group, click More Hide conversation .

Delete a direct message conversation

You can't delete your history for group conversations with 2 or more people.

1. Go to Google Chat or your Gmail account.
2. On the left, next to the person's name, click More Delete conversation.
3. Click Delete to confirm.

To delete a single message instead of a conversation, go to Edit or delete a message.