remove conversation tab
I would like the option to remove or hide the conversations tab. Teams is a great way to post and link to team related spreadsheets or slideshows and doesn't require a chat function. Keeping one sometimes means there are chat posts that are missed because they are not expected.

Removing the Conversation Tab is being reviewed by the feature team.
For deleting chat messages, please following progress here: https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103/suggestions/33535006.
Thanks.
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ID commented
This is a big GDPR, PII exposure point. I have a recent example where a customer's 11 year old son accidentally shared a Team Chat with all participants PII with an unknown third party. Corrective measures taken to remedy and clearly non-malicious but what if it were malicious? As the meeting owner, I should have the right to delete the whole Team chat with the same outcome being cascaded to all meeting participants. Admin - This one needs some pretty urgent attention please.
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Robert commented
This is a potential serious security risk as I now have a confidential conversation in my O365 instance that is from an outside organization.
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Patrik commented
Last update 09-06-2020??? We need this possiblity to delete the complete conversation during GPDR in Europe! Please implement this feature asap. Gracie!
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Anonymous commented
I would like to suggest that there should be an option where we can delete the whole conversation or clear the chat history since sometimes there are unnecessary conversations that we don’t need anymore. And besides it just adds up to the data of the app. Any update on this? You responded last year June 10, 2020. What’s with the long process of consideration? All the messaging apps there’s an option where you can delete the whole chat conversation without deleting the messages one by one. Please consider this.
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Anonymous commented
Please add delete function and support to use ms automatic flow to delete conversation
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Nick Birdsen commented
Can I buy an unlimited service?
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KP commented
Hi,
I want to delete the whole conversation. Is it possible to delete the conversations by unistaling the app and then reinstalling the same?
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Anonymous commented
I assume "conversation" tab is the "posts" tab? If so then yes please allow us to either hide / remove / re-order.
We never use posts and having it as the first tab on every channel is just annoying.
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Hans commented
I need the option to delete conversations and related contacts under the conversation tab. Not the tab itself.
As I use Teams a lot instead of Zoom, I communicate a lot with outside contacts.
90 % of those conversations prove useless or un-interesting. So I certainly don't want to keep a tab on those contacts neither give them a channel to contact me directly through Teams.
I need the option to delete conversations under the conversation tab. Not the tab itself.
Hiding the tab and desactivating the notification still keeps the link in the system. It is also not-allowed by our internal policy that obliges us to delete all references to person information for persons we don't do business with. -
Anonymous commented
pls add on delete and block options. the list is getting too long.
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Anonymous commented
Please add delete options for conversations and chats in Teams.
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Heba commented
Add delete whole conversation option
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Anonymous commented
I also work in a business environment and I do not want to keep all the chats and calls, (it is confusing), neither I have the time to erase "every single message"...Could you please add the feature to delete the entire chat?. Thank you.
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Anonymous commented
I need to be able to delete a chat without having to delete each message individually.
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Anonymous commented
Add the delete conversation option
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Fatih K commented
Any update about this option ? It should be there from the beginning.
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Helen hayes commented
this is so annoying, I want to be able to triage my chat and conversations, I don't need to have a long chain of chats, I never use them.. so a delete whole conversation should be a standard not an option.
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Roko Staničić commented
We should be able to delete entire conversations without having to delete a message one by one.
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Anonymous commented
I don't know what the "Conversation Tab" is; there are no tabs in my Teams window. But on the Chat window, I absolutely want the ability to delete a conversation, rather than just hide it. If I start a chat with colleagues A, B, and C on 1 Dec. about where to go for lunch that day, I don't need it anymore after lunch passes. Hiding it just hides the clutter. I want the ability to delete it, at least from my own view.
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Kenneth Tejada commented
for every messagin app there's always the option to remove whole conversation since this data added for loading the apps. i don't understand why Microsoft did not include this option.