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This How.com.vn teaches you how to view chats stored in your archive for WhatsApp on your iPhone or Android.
Steps
On iPhone
Open WhatsApp. It’s the green app on your home screen with a white telephone receiver inside of a speech bubble.
Tap Chats. This is the speech bubble icon at the bottom of the screen.- If WhatsApp opens to a conversation, first tap the "Back" button in the top-left corner of the screen.
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Swipe down in the middle of the screen. You will see Archived Chats in blue lettering appear at the top of the screen.- If all of your conversations are archived, you'll see Archived Chats at the bottom of the screen without needing to swipe down.
Tap Archived Chats. Doing so will display a list of your conversations that you've archived.- If you don’t see anything on this page, you don’t have any archived chats.
Tap a conversation. This will open it, allowing you to view the conversation.- You can swipe left over an archived chat to put it back in your inbox.
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Android
Open WhatsApp. It’s an app with a telephone receiver inside of a green speech bubble.
Tap Chats. This tab is near the top of the screen.- If WhatsApp opens to a conversation, first tap the "Back" button in the top-left corner of the screen.
Scroll down to the bottom of your chat inbox. You should see Archived Conversations (number) appear.- If you don't see this option, you don't have any archived chats.
Tap Archived Conversations. This will display all of your archived conversations.
Tap on the chat you want to view. Doing so will open the conversation, allowing you to scroll through it.Advertisement
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