Snapchat is a platform known for its disappearing messages feature. It pretty much revolutionized the social media world with this feature. Many of the popular social media platforms brought their own versions of the feature afterward. Instagram, for example, brought vanish mode for its DMs which enables users to have a private chat that vanishes after the mode is turned off. WhatsApp bought the disappearing messages feature in its new update as well.
Snapchat makes the chats disappear 24 hours after a user has viewed the messages in a chat. One can save them in the chat if they want to. Otherwise, they will be automatically deleted forever.
Snapchat also has a great policy for its privacy settings in that a user will know if someone screenshots or saves their snaps and stories. Even if a user deletes a message in a conversation, it lets the other person know, which can be frustrating, just as it can be reassuring.
If you are wondering whether Snapchat will let the other user know if you clear their chat without opening it, you are at the right place. In this blog, we will discuss if Snapchat notifies the other user when you clear their chat unopened.
Let’s get started!
If You Clear a Conversation on Snapchat Unopened, Will They Know?
First, let’s get one thing straight– as a Snapchat user, you might confuse clearing a chat with deleting a chat. However, both of these actions are different. It is important to learn the basic difference between the two.
Deleting a chat is deleting your entire chat thread with a person on both your and their end. This action is permanent and removes messages for everyone in the conversation irreversibly. You or the other person cannot access the deleted messages again. They will also be notified of the same.
Clearing a chat, on the other hand, just removes the chat on your end and not the other person’s. They will still be able to see the messages on their end, and they will not know that you have deleted the messages on yours. It temporarily removes the chat from your chat list but not from theirs. However, when the other person sends a new message to you, the chat will reappear on your list again.
Coming to the question at hand– will someone know if we clear their chat? Fortunately, they won’t know if you clear their chat. Snapchat does not notify the other person in any way if you clear their chat, and they have literally no way of knowing that you might have done so.
It doesn’t matter if you opened the chat or not; the other party won’t know about it. If you aren’t sure how you can clear somebody’s chat on Snapchat, let’s learn that in the next section.
How to clear a chat on Snapchat?
The process of clearing a chat on Snapchat is not that complex. However, you don’t want to accidentally delete a chat instead of clearing it; if you delete the chat, the other user will be notified of the same, and we are guessing you don’t want that.
So, how can one clear a Snapchat chat? Let’s learn that through this step-by-step guide.
Step 1: Open Snapchat on your device and log in to your account if you haven’t already.
Step 2: Go to your chats section by swiping right on your camera screen.
Step 3: Find the chat you want to clear. Now, tap and hold onto it.
You would be able to see several options displayed on the screen.
Step 4: Tap on Chat Settings from the list of options.
This will display a few more options; at the top of the list would be Clear from Chat Feed.
Step 5: You will be prompted with a confirmation message asking if you really want to clear the conversation. Click on Clear to confirm and remove the chat from your chat list.
Remember this will clear the chat only from your end and not the other person’s; they will still be able to see all the messages, media, and content of your conversation with them.
There you go! Following the above steps, you can easily clear a chat from your chat list on Snapchat. As established before, doing this will not notify the other party.
To sum it up
Well, that brings us to the end of this blog. Let’s quickly sum it up by going through everything we have learned so far today.
First, we began our discussion by talking about the various features and attributes of Snapchat. We then discussed how users often get confused between clearing a chat and deleting a chat. We learned the basic difference between the two.
We then determined whether a user will know if you clear their chat unopened. The answer to this is that the user will not have any way to know about it; they wouldn’t even be notified of the same.
Lastly, we understood how you could clear someone’s chat from your chat list using a step-by-step guide. We hope we were able to address all your doubts and queries about clearing someone’s chat on Snapchat unopened.
If you have any more doubts or questions you would like us to resolve, feel free to drop them in the comments section. We will address them in our upcoming blogs, as always!
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