Gmail offers a feature where one can chat from Gmail Inbox.
Gmail stores the chat history in a folder inside Gmail. You can disable this feature or if you want to delete the chat history, you can delete it by the following method.
- Login to Gmail.
- On the left side of the screen you will see the Chat menu below Starred menu. I do not mean the chat window.
- Click the Chat button
- You will see the list of chat history in this folder and all the chat history is stored in Email format
- When you open any conversation, you will see the date, time and the name of the person you chat with
- If you want to delete any chat history, choose the message that you want to delete and click more action
- Gmail bring bunch of option and choose Delete as seen below
- The selected chat history will be deleted
- You can also delete the chat history from the message view as described below
- On right side of the message you will see Reply and an arrow next to it
- Click the arrow to get a drop down menu
- Select Delete this message
- Selected chat message will be deleted
- All the deleted chat history is stored in Trash, so do not forget to delete the messages forever from trash folder
I have applied the theme so the view and color in your Gmail may differ.
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