Leaving a Whatsapp group is easy to do, less to say. The problem, in fact, is not so much how to leave a group in Whatsapp, but rather how to do it so as not to be added to that group and therefore avoid returning and having to leave again.
In addition, in some cases, it could be a move not really appreciated by the other participants of the group, especially if they are people we know well, who may perhaps be left out of our disinterest.
We will therefore have to find a way to stop making that group practically invisible on our Whatsapp.
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Whatsapp groups have now become a constant in life and I believe that almost all of them have been added to some group of friends to share in private (more or less) images to laugh or various comments on anything.
If it is true that they can be fun and are a way to be with friends even without meeting, it is also true that sometimes they can be annoying, especially if you have been included in many groups of the same type and the phone always continues to receive messages every minutes.
How to leave a Whatsapp group "> There is no way to momentarily abandon a group, even if you can always ask the administrator for a new invitation and say that you are wrong.
Note that you can also leave a group being an administrator and Whatsapp; in this case, the administrator role will be taken by a random participant.
NOTE: If you are an administrator of a Whatsapp group, you can delete it, even if you need to remove all participants first.
Then open the group info, touch and hold on the various participants and then remove them.
Once all are removed, delete the chat history (see below), go back to Group Info and press the button to delete the group forever .
the former participants will still be able to read the messages sent by the group before the cancellation.
Hide a Whatsapp group or act as if it wasn't there
Instead of leaving the group, in some cases you can simply deactivate it.
Deactivating a group of WhatsApp means that, for a certain period, the notifications of that group will be silenced and will not bother us.
To silence a WhatsApp group, search for the groups that we want to disable in the chat list and for each, touch and hold.
Then press, from the list of icons that appear at the top, the crossed-out speaker icon, which allows you to silence that group of WhatsApp.
Immediately after touching the icon, a small pop-up window gives you the option to disable that group's notifications for 8 hours, 1 week or 1 year .
In addition, just below these options, there is a box that allows you to indicate if we also want to remove the notifications that are shown on the screen when new messages arrive.
Once the corresponding option is chosen, the selected WhatsApp groups will not show any notification and will not emit sounds or vibrations every time someone sends a message.
You can also deactivate all groups of WhatsApp at the same time .
From the chat tab, tap the menu button to access Whatsapp settings, go to Notifications and then scroll down to find the Groups section.
Here you can tap on Notification tone to choose None and put silent group notifications.
Below you can also turn off the vibration and light of the notifications to make them disappear completely.
In this way, all groups of WhatsApp will be silenced and deactivated, even without abandoning them.
In addition, do not forget to disable the automatic download of photos and videos received, otherwise, even if we do not see the notifications of a group, the phone memory will still be clogged by these shared files.
To do this, go to Settings> Data and storage usage .
Finally, if you want to hide a group from the chat list, you can archive it .
Keep in mind though, that archiving in Whatsapp only means putting it aside and the first message you receive in that group, this will return to the top of the list.
Prevent being added to groups in Whatsapp
For the moment it is not possible to prevent being added to a group because the groups cannot be blocked as it can be done with contacts.
However, if the group administrator freezes, he will no longer be able to add us.
In the event that the group has multiple administrators, then all of them must be blocked.
In another article, the guide on what it means to block people on Whatsapp .
Keep in mind that deleting someone from the address book is not the same as blocking him and that he can still add us.
If a group participant is blocked, this person will not be prevented from writing within the group and his messages will also be visible to us.
The best solution remains to silence the notifications of the Whatsapp group in which we would not really want to participate.
Of course the messages will be the same as received, but we could also ignore them since no warning will appear on the smartphone.
Notifications can be blocked for one year, after which, the block must be repeated for another year and so on.
Finally, you can definitely clear a group's entire message history .
Without leaving, open the group chat, touch the options button at the top right, go to " Other " and then to Cancel chat .
The cancellation concerns only our Whatsapp and not that of other participants of the group.
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