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.
- On your computer, open Google Chat or Gmail.
- On the left, next to the person's name or group, click More
Hide conversation
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Delete a direct message conversation
You can't delete your history for group conversations with 2 or more people.
- On your computer, open Google Chat or Gmail.
- On the left, next to the person's name, click More
Delete conversation.
- Click Delete to confirm.
To delete a single message instead of a conversation, go to Edit or delete a message.