Delete or turn off your message history

When you delete your message history, this is deleted from Gmail and Hangouts on all your devices. Other people in the Hangout can still see the history.

Delete your message history

Delete history with one person

  1. On your Android phone or tablet, open the Hangouts app Hangouts.
  2. Open a conversation.
  3. At the top right, tap More Moreand then Options and thenDelete conversation.
  4. If you’re sure you want to delete your conversation, tap Delete.

Delete history for a group

You can’t delete the history for a group, but you can leave the conversation. Learn how to leave the conversation.

If someone adds you back to the group conversation, you’ll see the history again.

Hide a conversation

You can remove a conversation from the top of your list, without deleting the history.

Hide a conversation

  1. On your Android phone or tablet, open the Hangouts app Hangouts.
  2. Open a conversation.
  3. At the top right, tap More More and then Options and then  Archive conversations. If you send or get a  new message it will show up again on your conversation list.

See a conversation again

  1. On your Android phone or tablet, open the Hangouts app Hangouts.
  2. At the top, tap Menu and then Archived.
  3. Tap the conversation.
  4. Tap More More and then Options and then Unarchive conversation.

Turn Hangout history on or off

When you turn your history on or off, it changes for everyone in the conversation. A notification will show up in the Hangout window.

  1. On your Android phone or tablet, open the Hangouts app Hangouts.
  2. Select a conversation.
  3. Tap More Moreand then Options.
  4. Under “Conversation,” tap History.

If you use Hangouts through your work or school, your domain administrator can set and change this setting.

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