WhatsApp tips and tricks: How to stop receiving messages from an annoying friend without blocking them

WhatsApp is a popular instant-messaging app. It is used by most of us in a daily basis to connect with our friends and family by sending text mesages, videos, photos, and voice recordings online. But sometimes we get irritated by an annoying contact sending good morning messages or unwanted forwards on a daily basis.

So, if you want to get rid of that annoying contact on WhatsApp without blocking them, then you can do it in a easy way. WhatsApp has a feature called Archive folder that will allow users to ignore a group or friend without having to block them.

This feature will help users to hide the chats of people you don’t want to see or reply. This feature will prevent the unwanted conversations of a group or a contact from appearing in chat window without blocking them.

The Meta-owned instant messaging platform recently released a repackaged version of archived chat feature. The messaging feature now lets users mute a contact forever. Notably, you can unarchive the contact at any point in time.

The good thing about the revamped version of the archive chat feature is that once a contact is archived you will not be notified even for new messages or calls or any other notifications.

How to archive someone on WhatsApp forever.

Step 1: Update the WhatsApp app to the latest version.

Step 2: Open the WhatsApp App.

Step 3: Select the annoying contact or group that you want to archive. You can select as many as you want.

Step 4: Android users can press on the contact and then click on the down arrow facing icon at the top of the screen. And the iOS users can either swipe to left or long press on the contact and click on archive option.

Step 5: On both iOS and Android, the Archived section will show up on the top of your chat feed. The archive contacts can be accessed with just a click or unarchived.

Step 6: You can also archive all chats at a time by going to the chats tab and tap on More > Settings.

Step 7: Now tap on Chats > Chat History > Archive all chats.

Step 8: All the chats will be archived.

How to unarchive contacts on WhatsApp

Step 1: Open WhatsApp app on your phone.

Step 2: Head to the archive section at the top of the homescreen.

Step 3: Selecting the chat and tap on the Unarchive option (upward arrow facing icon) on top.

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