Teams Chat: Managing Chat Sessions

Summary

This article provides instructions on how to leave a chat in Microsoft Teams, as well as how to hide or mute a chat session.

 

How-To

 
Hide a chat session

While you can't delete an entire chat, you can hide a chat from your chat list if it's not relevant to you anymore.

Instructions

Step 1 - Select Chat to open the chat list.

Step 2 - Next to the chat you want to hide, right click or select More options More options button > Hide Teams hide chat icon.

The chat and its history are hidden until someone posts a new message to it.

 


Reveal a hidden chat session

To reveal a chat that is hidden, use search to find the chat session and change the setting.

Instructions

Step 1 - In the Search boxSelect to start a search.at the top, type a word or phrase that's included in the chat that you want to reveal (such as the sender or a participant's name).

Step 2 - Choose the hidden chat that you want to reveal, select Chat in the left toolbar. The chat session displays in the chat feed again.

Step 3 - In the chat, right click or select More options More options button > Unhide.

 


Mute a chat session

When you mute a chat, you'll still be included in the conversation, but won't get notifications from it.

Instructions

Step 1 - Select Chat to open the chat list.

Step 2 - Find the name of the chat you want to mute.

Step 3 - Right click or select More options More options button > Mute Teams chat mute icon. If you change your mind, select it again and choose Unmute UnMute Chat Button Icon.

      Tip: The Mute symbol Teams chat mute icon appears next to the names of the chat participants to remind you that the chat has been muted.

 


Leave a group chat session

You cannot currently delete Teams chat conversations. It is possible to delete conversations within a Teams channel but not in an individual chat.

After you join a group chat, you can decide whether you want to remain a member or leave the group chat. You can also remove people from a group chat.

Instructions

Step 1 - Select Chat to open the chat list.

Step 2 - Find the name of the group.

Step 3 - Right click or select More options > Leave.

 Note: If you change your mind, ask someone in the group for an invitation.

 


Remove people from a group chat session

To allow members to remove each other from a group chat session, your Teams administrator needs to activate the setting. People removed from a chat session are able to view previous chat history, but cannot send new messages, react to messages, view new conversations or files shared by the group. If someone has been removed or decides to leave a group chat, their chat messages are still there in your chat history. Any changes to the chat history can be seen by them, so try to avoid editing these messages.

Instructions

Step 1 - Open any group chat of three or more people and go to the top of the chat where it tells you the number of participants.

Step 2 - Click on the number of participants.

Step 3 - Hover on the person's name you want to remove.

Step 4 - Select the X and confirm you want to remove the participant from the chat session.

An update in the chat session informs everyone that you've removed the person.

 

 

Further Readings

Manage notifications in Teams 

Hide, unhide, mute, or pin a chat in Teams 

Microsoft: Leave or remove someone from a group chat in Microsoft Teams 

 

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