Questions about Whatsapp please?

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Hi, Can anyone tell me the answers to the following please? 1. In a chat, is it possible for one person to delete their comments? And the other person's comments? 2. If I were to archive a chat, is it preserved in its entirety or could the other participant delete it/ parts of it? TIA

It's possible for someone to delete their WhatsApp messages within 1 hour of sending it, assuming everyone involved is using a version that supports this feature.

If they delete their message within a short time (pp says one hour), all recipients have that message deleted too. After that, anything (sent or received) deleted on their phone will still be on everyone else's phone archived or not.

Re archiving, if you have cloud backup (eg to Google drive), it'll stay forever. If not, WhatsApp will eventually clear out your archives.

If you definitely want to keep something, you can export chat to a downloadable text file and then email it to yourself (open chat, menu more, export chat).

Thanks all, that's really helpful.