How to clear My own chat history like others

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How to clear My own chat history like others

Yunus KALDIRIM 0

Hi,

There are "Remove chat history" functionality for others. But There is no way of one shot clear all history of my Own chat history. This should be added to new feature. We can not delete one by one of each notes of our own chat dialog.

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Yunus KALDIRIM 0

Hi,

I don’t mean delete whole history of all communications. I mean message history sended to myself. We can delete any other message history between me to others. But I can not delete my own sended messages.

Gabriel-N 20,665 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator

2026-07-24T07:12:15.68+00:00

Hello @Yunus KALDIRIM

Thanks for your feedback. I understand what you mean and I apologize if my earlier wording was confusing.

When I mentioned that "Microsoft Teams does not provide a built-in option to clear all of your personal chat history at once", I was referring specifically to the Chat with Yourself conversation in Teams, not all of your chats. From what I was able to test, the self-chat works differently from regular chats. There isn't an option to remove the entire self-chat history like you can with some other chat conversations. With self-chat, you can only delete individual messages or hide the conversation.

That's why I suggested either submitting feedback to Microsoft as a feature request, or, if you're using a work or school account, checking with your IT admin whether a Teams retention policy might help remove messages automatically after a certain period.

Answer 2

Hello @Yunus KALDIRIM

Thank you for your feedback.

At the moment, Microsoft Teams does not provide a built-in option to clear all of your personal chat history at once. While you can delete individual chat messages from your view or hide chat conversations, there is currently no "one-click" feature that allows users to remove their entire chat history in Teams.

If you are using Teams in a business environment, your IT administrator can configure Microsoft Teams retention policies through Microsoft Purview to automatically delete chat messages after a specific period of time, depending on your organization's requirements.

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Since you mentioned that you would like to see this functionality added, I encourage you to submit feedback through the Microsoft Feedback Portal or directly from within the Teams app. Microsoft relies heavily on user feedback when evaluating and prioritizing new features and improvements.

Reference: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/how-do-i-give-feedback-on-microsoft-365

I hope this information is helpful. Thank you for your understanding.

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