It is quite common for us to accumulate conversations on WhatsApp. As time goes by, we make new contacts and chat with them through this instant messaging app. Consequently, there are more and more open conversations that take up space. We can also find chats of people that we no longer want to see even in paint. But how to delete a WhatsApp contact?
So that you can carry out this task, we will explain in this article how to do it step by step. In addition, we will discuss what we should do if the contacts continue to appear on WhatsApp despite having deleted them. If you want to clean up conversations or simply never hear from a specific person again, I recommend that you continue reading. You will find this information very useful!
How to delete a WhatsApp contact step by step
The big day has come when we decided to clean our WhatsApp and delete conversations and contacts. Do not worry, it is a very simple and intuitive task. But for everything to go well, we will explain step by step how to delete a WhatsApp contact.
- Open the application on your Android mobile.
- Select the tab of the chat you want to delete and hold it.
- After a while, the conversation is selected and four icons appear at the top.
- These icons are used to pin the chat, delete it, silence the person or archive it. We are interested in deleting the conversation, which is the icon that represents a trash can.
- By clicking on the trash can icon, a tab will appear that tells us "Do you want to delete this chat?" If we want all the files that we have received from that person to also be deleted, we must select the option where it says “Also delete the multimedia files received in this chat from the device gallery”.
- In the lower part of the tab that we have mentioned in the previous step, we can click on “Cancel” or “Delete chat”. If we are clear that we want to delete it, we must hit the second.
It's easy, right? We can do the same but selected multiple chats at once. In this way we can do a quick and uncomplicated cleaning. But be careful with the groups. These cannot be deleted like normal chats. First we must leave them to later be able to delete the conversation. To do this we must follow these steps:
- Enter the group chat.
- Hit the three dots to open the menu.
- Click on "More".
- A new menu will open where we must click on "Exit the group".
- Go back to the conversations tabs and follow the same steps as before to delete contacts.
How to permanently delete a contact
It should be said that, despite having deleted the WhatsApp conversation, if we search for contacts in this app they continue to appear if we still have the person in the contact list of our phone. And how can we remove them? Let's see it step by step:
- Open the contact list of your mobile.
- Find the person you want to remove.
- Enter the contact information.
- Hit the three dots to open the menu.
- Select "Delete."
- A tab will appear saying “Do you want to delete this contact? All linked contacts will be removed." Below we again have the options to “Cancel” or “Delete”. We must hit the latter.
Now that person should no longer appear or look for them again in WhatsApp. This is great if we no longer want to know anything about someone at all, as is often the case after a breakup, for example. But there is one more thing that we can do before deleting the contact on WhatsApp, which is block it. This way we make sure that you don't contact us either. If he did it without us blocking him, we would continue receiving messages from him despite no longer having him in our contacts and a new chat tab would be created. If you want to know how to block and unblock contacts in WhatsApp, give here.
It should be said that if you want to prevent a specific person from contacting you, it is best to block them on the phone and on all social networks, not only on WhatsApp. Here are some articles related to the blocking in different Android applications:
A recurring question related to the topic of deleting content to which we want you to have a solution is how do you achieve see the messages you have deleted.
Why are WhatsApp contacts not deleted?
Now we know how to delete a WhatsApp contact, but what if it keeps appearing? On some occasions it can happen that the person we have eliminated continues to appear, which can be somewhat frustrating. It is not something usual, but when it happens nothing happens, because this little problem has a solution. If after verifying that the contact still appears, We must clear the cache. To do this we must follow the following steps:
- Go into the settings of your mobile.
- Select “Applications”.
- Find the WhatsApp app and select it.
- We will enter the information of the application where we can uninstall it or force stop it. In this case we are interested in selecting the second option: “Force stop”.
- After clicking there, a notification will appear saying the following: "If you force an application to stop, you can cause errors." Even so, you must hit “Force stop” again.
- Then, in the "Use" section you have to go to "Storage".
- There you have the option to “Clear Data” or “Clear / Clear Cache”. You have to give the second to delete the cache.
Once we have done all these steps, we will have to verify that it has worked. To do this we must enter WhatsApp and go to the chat tab. When we have selected it, tap on “New chat” and search for the contact we want to delete. Then you have to press the name of the contact and click on "Edit". At the bottom of the options, the option “Delete contact” will appear. Hitting it there we should have gotten rid of it by now.
As we have already mentioned above, deleting a WhatsApp contact is quite simple. In the worst case we will have to delete the cache of the app, which can be a little more complicated, but we already know how to do it!
