How to delete messages in Viber from your interlocutor or yourself: all available methods

On Android

Owners of Android devices can easily delete messages from a Viber group if they use a simple algorithm.

• Open messenger;
• Go to the group conversation of interest;
• Tap on the text and hold your finger for a couple of seconds;
• A context menu will appear - you need the “Delete” item;

• Confirm the action. That's all!

Please note that you can select and delete one message at a time; you cannot erase the history at once. The only way out is to leave the community and remove it from the main screen.

Deleting a message in a conversation

To delete a message on Android, open the chat and hold your finger on the desired text.

Next, a context menu will appear in which select “Delete”.

If you wrote it, then the confirmation window will look like this. You can erase text only from yourself or from your interlocutor as well. If you change your mind, you can click Cancel. Once it's gone, there's no way to get it back.

If you delete text written not by you, but by your interlocutor, then the confirmation window will only have 2 points. Here you can cancel the action or delete the text only for yourself, that is, it will remain for your friend.

After you confirm the action, the following notification will appear. By the way, it can be removed using the same method that I just described.

If you need to delete a message on an iPhone, the steps will be almost the same. First, hold your finger on it for a long time. When the menu pops up, select More. Then click “Delete” and decide whether it’s only for you or also for your interlocutor.

If you want to specifically clean up the chat, then selecting unnecessary text each time will take a long time. Instead, you can delete several messages in Viber at once. First, click on the three dots in the top right corner.

Next, click on “Select messages.”

Now use your finger to tap on all the excess. In this case, the fields will be highlighted in color, and the total number of selected ones will appear at the top. When you have selected everything, click on the trash can icon.

After this, as always, a confirmation window will appear. There is one nuance here: if among the selected letters there is at least one letter that was not written by you, the “Delete everywhere” option will no longer appear. Therefore, you can first get rid of everything that you yourself wrote, and then clean up what was sent to you.

At the moment, it is not possible to get rid of several messages in correspondence on an iPhone. You will either have to erase them one by one, or you can completely clear the chat. The same instructions are also suitable for those who want to immediately delete all messages in Viber.

On iPhone

You won’t be able to completely clear messages in Viber in a group – but there is good news! You can delete text fragments one at a time (only those sent by you).

Please note: the message is deleted from all participants in the conversation and cannot be restored. To remove unnecessary data, do the following:

• Open messenger;
• Jump to the conversation you are interested in;
• Hold the message with your finger for a few seconds;
• In the menu that appears, select “More”;
• Click on the red “Delete” icon;
• Confirm the action by pressing the appropriate button.

Ready! This way you can clear the Viber group of messages that are no longer needed. Now that we've dealt with smartphones, let's move on to the desktop version of the messenger!

How to Optimize Photos and Videos on iPhone and iPad

iOS and iPadOS have a great feature that allows you to store original photos and videos in iCloud, and leave smaller versions of the files on your device. The 5 GB of cloud storage that Apple gives for free is not enough for almost anyone, so I almost immediately bought a 200 GB tariff plan for 149 rubles per month. This is quite enough for everyone who uses Apple devices in our family and we have the corresponding option enabled in the Photo settings on our devices. Nowadays, good mobile Internet is available almost everywhere, so there are no problems with downloading the desired photo if necessary.

Enable iCloud Photo Library to store photos in the cloud

If you delete photos and videos manually from the Photo application , then to actually free up space on the drive after cleaning, you need to additionally go to Albums-Recently Deleted-Select-Delete All.

Since I use Microsoft Office 365, the subscription provides 1Tb of OneDrive storage, so I have the corresponding application installed on my mobile gadgets, which immediately uploads all my photos to the Microsoft cloud, so I store only the most valuable and newest in iCloud.

OneDrive automatically saves photos taken on your device to the cloud

For those who don't use OneDrive, I highly recommend Google Photos . The service developed by the “good corporation” allows you to upload photos from devices and store them in the cloud completely free of charge with a resolution of up to 16 megapixels. and video resolution up to 1080p. This is enough for most users, including me. You won’t be able to store the original 4K video like this; you will either have to agree to convert it to FullHD, or store it in 15 GB, which Google gives for free, and for everything else you have to subscribe. By the way, Google Photo, after uploading your creativity to the cloud, offers to delete the originals from the gadget and thereby frees up space.

No photo will be lost with Google Photos

Another thing that owners of iPhone 7 and newer need to do is go to the camera settings and select the “Formats” section. Here you need to enable the “High Efficiency” option to save photos in a heic container instead of jpeg and compress video with the H.265 codec instead of H.264.

We enable new photo and video file formats on the gadget

I also recommend disabling the saving of original HDR images.

Disable saving original HDR images

On the computer

Users of the computer application are not limited in their options - if you want, you can remove unnecessary data from group correspondence in a few seconds. We have made instructions for two different popular operating systems - choose the desired algorithm!

On Windows:

• Open the application and enter the conversation;
• Right-click on the desired piece of text;
• Select the corresponding “Delete” item from the drop-down menu;
• Click again on the button of the same name.

On Mac OS:

• Open the program;
• Find the group dialogue;
• Go to the message and press the Ctrl button while holding your finger on a specific piece of text;
• Select “Delete” from the menu;
• Done - you've done it!

How to clear iPhone and iPad memory

First of all, you need to decide which “heavyweight” applications are not needed. For example, I have never used GarageBand, and it itself weighs 1.56 Gb, and it was installed along with the operating system - we delete it. iMovie takes up a lot of space, but this is also because I recently stitched together the footage from my walk in it. To clean it, you need to go into iMovie itself and delete all projects. The finished films have already been exported to Photos; we don’t need duplicates or originals. Next, I look at what games I have already completed and haven’t accessed them for more than a month, as a result, both Asphalt 8 and Temple Run flew off the gadget along with Tom, who is running for gold, but I had to leave the tanks with Minecraft until the children had enough of playing.

Here are 5 more ways to free up memory on your iPhone.

How to clean Viber

Continuing to study the iPhone storage shows that a huge amount of space is being consumed by messenger data. The fighting technique is very simple. You need to go to WhatsApp, Viber and Telegram, and then look at conversations and delete unnecessary media files. For example, in Viber I open the desired group, tap its name at the top and in the “Media Gallery” section tap “Show all”. Found objects are subject to ruthless removal.

Viber allows you to delete all attachments or individually

In the Viber , it will be useful to go to the “Multimedia” section and in the “Store media files” subsection, instead of Indefinitely, specify, say, 1 month.

How to clean WhatsApp

In WhatsApp , click on the conversation at the top, tap on the contact’s name, then go to “Media, links and documents” and start cleaning.

In WhatsApp, you will have to delete attachments from a conversation separately

Unlike Viber, you cannot delete all messages at once. However, you can go to Settings-Data and storage-Storage, select a contact and tap “Manage” at the bottom of the screen and delete everything unnecessary.

How to clean Telegram

In Telegram, you can delete either individually unnecessary media, files, links, for which you just need to tap on the contact name or chat name at the top, or clear all media files in chats through the settings.

In Telegram you can delete individual attachments in chat

To do this, go to Settings - Data and memory - Memory usage. On this tab, firstly, you can limit the storage period of media on your smartphone, secondly, clear the Telegram cache, and thirdly, go into each chat and clear unnecessary data.

With built-in Messages you need to do the following. On the gadget, go to Settings-Messages. Find the “Leave messages” option and change from “Indefinitely” to “30 days”. In the Audio Messages section, you need to check that the “Expires” option is set to “In 2 minutes.”

Check your Messages settings

How to clean Instagram

The easiest way to clear a huge cache on Facebook, Instagram and VKontakte is to delete the application itself and then reinstall it from the App Store. Yes, then you will have to log in to each account again, but we have a Keychain. In this way I cleared out a couple of gigabytes of accumulated garbage.

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Why can't I delete it?

Are you wondering why messages from a group are not deleted on Viber? Remember a few simple rules:

• You cannot remove someone else’s message – neither on a smartphone nor on a computer;
• It is impossible to delete a chat completely - only partially, only the data sent by you.

We discussed in detail how to delete messages in a group on a phone or computer in Viber, and looked at the main operating systems. We hope you have thoroughly understood the information – you won’t encounter any problems clearing chat again!

How to delete messages and entire chat in a group

The procedure for deleting unnecessary letters and conversations in a group is identical to that used when communicating with a single recipient. It is the same for conversations created by both you and other participants.

You can erase a single message like this:

• go to the group dialogue;
• Hold the SMS you want to get rid of for a long time. If you wrote it yourself, you can remove it from yourself and other participants. If the message was sent by another person, you can only erase it on your device.

To delete all correspondence, hold it for a long time. Once the menu opens, select the “delete chat” option. After this, the correspondence and even the title will disappear.

You can simply clear a group conversation. To do this, go to the desired dialogue, open the menu and click “clear chat”. As a result, a clean window for correspondence, untainted by grievances and negative emotions, will appear before your eyes.

What gets erased

In regular correspondence, there is a function to eliminate both your own and other people's letters. If the user erases the message of the interlocutor, it will disappear only for the person who wished to get rid of the “traces” of the dialogue. The second party or other chat participants see the information until the sender deletes his “For everyone” SMS.

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If you decide to delete correspondence in Viber, all letters and files in it will become unavailable for viewing by the user. If you delete a conversation with a channel or public account, then you will be automatically unsubscribed.

It is also possible to simultaneously delete call history with all dialogues.