Delete Private Chat threads
This request is for the ability to completely delete a private chat thread. (Not hide/archive.)
Again, this was pulled out into its own topic because it is still under review and no decision has been made.
To recap what has already been completed from the other topic:
- Delete your own messages anywhere in Teams.
- Team Owners can choose if users can edit/delete in their tenant as well as choose if admins have the power to delete any message posted in public channels.
- The ability to hide your private chat threads (these are not the chat threads in channels, but the private chat threads that appear when you click the Chat icon on the left-side app bar).
- The ability to mute your private chat threads. (these are not the chat threads in channels, but the private chat threads that appear when you click the Chat icon on the left-side app bar).
This topic deserves consideration and separating out hot items is something we have often done. Please don't think of this as an attempt to diminish the ask, we know that many people want this.
Thank you for your understanding and feedback.
-Warren
Warren
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Thank you for your votes and comments on this feature. The team is in the process of finalizing designs for deleting private chat threads. I will update as we have more progress to share.
1573 comments
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Mike
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This seems like an obvious feature addition and seems to frustrate our users that they cannot clean up their chats.
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Anonymous
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Please increase the priority!
I would really wonder if this wasn't mandatory in order to comply with international privacy regulations! -
Anonymous
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You should implement it ASAP
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Anonymous
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Any updates?
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Scott
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Students need to be able to permanently delete their own chats in any channel. Students should also be able to delete messages of their own from private chats and from group chats. This should not be something a teacher can allow or disallow, but something that cannot be turned off/on. People should be able to permanently delete chats of their own in any group, private chat, channel, etc.
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Madison
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its very stressful when youre complaining about a teacher through the private chat during class and you cant delete it afterword.
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Anonymous
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Status?
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Anonymous
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Did you finally finalize designs of the function?? ahaha
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jk
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Go about it now!
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Pawel PRS
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Wow! Must be one **** of a design if you're still working on it since June! More of Microsoft's usual MO.
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Anonymous
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Please update ASAP
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Anonymous
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Please implement
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Christian Schingh-Laniel
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Clients should have the "Purge" option next to "Undo" after deleting a message.
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Emanuel
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The users in our business are also requesting this more and more. An update would be nice =)
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Karina
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this needs to be available ASAP. not "on a backlog"
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Ballen9957
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In the current political environment it is absolutely necessary for the administrator to act as teams chat moderator and control the user content. Inflammatory political and personal messages are prohibited by Company policy and yet we have no control over user content. This feature needs to be implemented immediately or at least a hot fix made available.
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Anonymous
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Please please please make this available.
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Anonymous
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Any date on the horizon for this feature? Please do pull it forward on the storyboard and make this as a priority and ship it out ASAP.
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Anonymous
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Did you finalize the design? Do you want help?
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Anonymous
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Any idea when this feature will be enabled? Urgently required since we are working from home now and the company data is private and confidential, not to be seen whenever the app is launch, the conversation is still there. Can someone from Microsoft implement the delete conversation feature, just like Skype for Business. Really appreciate the implementation, I am sure it will help a lot of MS users that has been faithfully using since MS Office 95.