Signal has taken a step forward after what happened with privacy with WhatsApp, managing to reach the historical figure of 50 million users. Despite being very far from the others, the application hopes to continue to be one of the safest cross-platform messaging clients.
As with other applications, Signal stores the chats with the conversations and the positive thing within the settings is to be able to delete old messages. There is the option to erase 100 to 5.000 in one hit just by accessing the application settings and doing two steps.
How to delete old messages in Signal
Old chats are stored, but sometimes we want to start deleting Those that in the end take up a space and we don't want to save on our device. Doing it manually is quite tedious and that is why it is good to know how to do it from the various options of Signal.
If you usually use Signal as the specific application to chat with your friends, it is possible that this will be quite useful for you over time. Signal is a new application for some and for others it has been a while available, specifically it was launched back in 2015.
To delete old Signal messages you have to do the following:
- The first thing is to start the Signal application on your Android device
- Access Settings and then go to Storage
- Click Chat length limit, here choose the option you prefer, it goes from 100 to 5.000 messages to delete, another option is to set your own limit by hand and click on «Delete» to delete all
Once the option is activated, it will periodically delete old Signal messagesIf you want to remove them, just select "None" when accessing "Chat length limit". The user has within his reach to be able to delete old chats or not depending on his needs.
Signal expects to grow in the coming weeks, since WhatsApp has given its users more time to accept the privacy policy, until May's 15. Doubling those 50 million users is at the moment what the application wants in the coming months.
