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How to delete a group on WhatsApp

While deleting a WhatsApp group doesn’t take long, there is an order to doing it.

First, you need to remove any participants from the chat. Next, you’ll want to leave the group yourself. Finally, you can go ahead and delete the chat. You won’t even see the option to delete the chat until everyone’s out of there, meaning you can’t just hit a button and be done with it.

Follow the steps below to learn how to delete a group chat on WhatsApp…

What you’ll need:

The Short Version

How to delete a group on WhatsApp

Step1

Open WhatsApp

These steps should work on any iOS or Android smartphone.

Step2

Tap on a group chat

This is the chat you’re going to delete.

Step3

Scroll down until you see a list of participants

This should be near the bottom of the page.

Step4

Select a participant and tap Remove From Group

You’re going to need to remove everyone from the group before you can delete the chat.

Step5

Tap Remove to kick them out of the chat

Repeat steps 5 and 6 until everyone but yourself has left the group.

Step6

Tap Exit Group

You should only do this when you’re the last person in the group.

Step7

Tap Exit Group again to confirm you want to leave

This will kick you out of the group but you’ll still be able to see the chat settings.

Step8

Tap Delete Group

The option will be in the same spot Exit Group was before you left the group.

Step9

Tap Delete Group again to confirm and delete the group chat permanently

That’s it! You’re group chat is no more. Previous participants will still be able to see the group in their chat list, but they won’t be able to send any further messages.

Troubleshooting

You can’t delete chats if you’re not the admin. If you want to be an admin, you’ll either need to make the chat in question or convince an existing admin to add you as admin – which they probably won’t want to do if you’re only doing it so you can delete the chat.

Once you delete the chat, it will disappear from your WhatsApp chats list and the chat history will be erased from your phone. This doesn’t apply to other participants, however, who can continue to see the chat but not send messages in it.

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How to delete a group on WhatsApp

How to delete a group on WhatsApp

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