How to Use Telegram's Archive Chats Feature
Conclusion
Telegram's archive chats feature significantly improves the convenience of managing your chats. Users can easily hide infrequently used chats, groups, and channels, and quickly access them when needed. Whether you're on mobile or desktop, the archiving feature can help you better organise your information in Telegram.
Introduction to Telegram's Archive Chats Feature
The latest version of Telegram introduces the Archive Chats feature, which allows users to hide infrequently used chats from the main 'Chats' screen. This feature is similar to QQ's 'Group Assistant', making chat management more efficient. You can choose to archive individual chats or groups to better organise your Telegram conversations.
How to Use on Mobile
- iOS: Swipe left on a chat to archive it.
- Android: From your chat list, long-press a chat and then select 'Archive'. Once archived, an 'Archived Chats' section will appear at the top.
- For archived chats, swipe left to unarchive them.
- The 'Archived Chats' section can be swiped left to hide it, pulled down to reveal it again, and swiped left to pin it to the top of your chat list.
How to Use on Desktop
- On desktop, right-click on a chat to archive it. An 'Archived Chats' section will appear at the top.
- For archived chats, right-click to unarchive them.
- The 'Archived Chats' section can be collapsed or expanded by right-clicking.
- On the desktop client, you can move the 'Archived Chats' section to the main menu. If it's already in the main menu, you can access settings via the three horizontal lines in the top left, find 'Archived Chats', and right-click to move it back to your main chat list.
Other Important Notes
- When a new message arrives, an archived chat with notifications enabled will automatically unarchive.
- If someone @mentions you or replies to your message in a group, the archived chat will also automatically unarchive.
- Even if notifications are turned off, archived chats will remain archived.
- Users can pin an unlimited number of archived chats to the top, while regular chats can only have a maximum of 5 pinned.
By following these steps, you can fully utilise Telegram's archive chats feature to boost your information management efficiency.