How to Delete a WhatsApp Group|6 Tricks for Delete or Leave WhatsApp Group

How to delete a WhatsApp group? When you no longer need a WhatsApp group, here are 6 tricks for you.

WhatsApp groups can help us contact our friends and customers in a timely manner, but you may want to delete a group for various reasons, such as there will be a lot of spam in the group, the group has become useless for you, your work in the group has been completed.

How to delete a WhatsApp group

This article will answer all kinds of deleting and exiting WhatsApp groups for you, and you can quickly reach the corresponding questions by clicking on them.

How to delete a group on WhatsApp as an admin

If you have a question like "how can I delete a WhatsApp group of which I am the administrator" "how to completely delete a WhatsApp group chat" or "how to close a WhatsApp group". Here is the solution for you. Before you can delete a group you must remove all group participants, and then exit the group. There are 5 steps you need to do.

  1. Open the WhatsApp chat of the group you want to delete.
  2. Tap the group name at the top of the screen.
  3. Tap on the name of each member you want to remove and choose “Remove From Group” from the pop-up.
  4. After removing all group participants, you’ll need to exit the group. Tap the option to "Exit Group" which appears at the bottom of the screen.
  5. After you exit a group, you have the option to delete the group. The option to "Delete Group" will pop up.
Remove WhatsApp group members
Remove WhatsApp group members
Exit WhatsApp group & Delete WhatsApp group
Exit WhatsApp group & Delete WhatsApp group

How to delete a WhatsApp group for everyone

After completing the steps in "How to delete a group on WhatsApp as an admin", you have deleted a WhatsApp group.

You’ll no longer see the group in your chats list and the chat history will be erased from your chat list.

Other participants will still see the group in their chat list. However, no one will be able to send messages.

How to delete someone from a WhatsApp group

If you only want to remove a person from the group, you only need to remove the group participant.

  1. Open the WhatsApp group chat, then tap the group subject.
  2. Tap the participant’s name.
  3. Remove the selected participant.
Delete someone from a WhatsApp group
Delete someone from a WhatsApp group

How to leave a WhatsApp group

  1. Open WhatsApp and navigate to the group you want to leave. Tap on the group to open the chat.
  2. Click the group name at the top of the screen.
  3. Scroll down to the bottom and tap “Exit Group.” Select “Exit” from the confirmation pop-up box.
Leave a WhatsApp group
Leave a WhatsApp group

After you log out, if the historical chat records in the group are no longer valuable to you, you can delete the group.

Select the “Delete Group” option that pops up. Confirm your choice by selecting “Delete.”

Delete a WhatsApp group
Delete a WhatsApp group

How to exit a WhatsApp group without anyone knowing

Unfortunately, you can't leave a WhatsApp group without anyone knowing, I've tried a lot of tutorials on the Internet, but I can't leave the group privately without anyone knowing.

If you really don't need a group anymore, say goodbye directly in the group and leave the group politely. If you are inconvenient to leave the group for some reason, but the group message bothers you, you have these two alternative options.

Option 1: Mute or disable group notifications

Mute or disable group notifications
Mute or disable group notifications
  1. Open the WhatsApp group chat, then tap the group subject.
  2. Tap “Mute notifications“.
  3. Select the length of time you'd like to mute notifications.

Option 2: Archive a WhatsApp group

Archive a WhatsApp group
Archive a WhatsApp group
  1. In the CHATS tab, tap and hold the chat you want to hide.
  2. Tap the "archive" button at the top of the screen.

How to export WhatsApp group contacts

Sometimes you just complete the work tasks in the group, and then you need to leave the group, but the contact information of group members is still useful to you. If you record each manually, it will be very inconvenient.

There is a tool that can operate in batches, Export the contact details of all members at once. Try this Free WhatsApp CRM Tool to help you to export WhatsApp group contacts.

  1. Install WAPlus CRM, a Simple WhatsApp CRM browser extension
  2. Select the "Tabs & Groups" feature, and switch to "Groups"
  3. Choose the group you want to export, click the "export" button and it will download the excel file automatically
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WAPlus CRM - Free WhatsApp CRM Tool

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