

Note that when you clear a chat, it will remove all the previous chat history, so you need to export the chat before you clear it if you care to keep a history of the chat. Here’s an example of two cleared chats at the top of my Chats dialog. In WhatsApp, there are a couple of options you have: clear a chat, delete a chat, or archive a chat.Ĭlearing a chat will clear all the current chat history from that chat, but keep the blank chat still visible in the Chats tab of the app.

The best way to reduce the size of your WhatsApp chats and still keep the chat history is to export and then clear. Now that we know which chats are using up the most space, we can start to clear them out. So is the next group chat right below that. Next, tap on Storage Usage at the bottom.įinally, you will get a listing of which chats (group or individual) are taking up the most space on your phone.Īs you can see, my Family group chat is eating up almost half a gigabyte of data.
