If you accidentally send a message too soon or want to delete a previously sent message from a conversation stream, then you’ll be pleased to learn that you can do so in just a few short steps.
Deleting messages is just one way of controlling your conversations on the TikTok app, with users able to delete specific messages or entire inbox streams.
NOTE: When you delete a message that you have sent, it is deleted on both ends and will disappear from the conversation both on your device and on the recipients device.
Keep reading to find out how to delete individual messages and an entire conversation stream with ease.
3 Steps to Delete a Single Message
- Head to your inbox on TikTok using the ‘Inbox’ chat icon along the bottom of the page
- Click on the chat that contains messages you want to delete
- Press and hold on the message that you want to delete. A pop up menu will appear along the bottom of the screen – select ‘Delete’. The message will disappear!
How to Delete a Message Stream
If you want to remove an entire message stream, you don’t have to go into the conversation and manually delete every single message using the process outlined above.
Instead, head to your inbox and press and hold on the conversation that you want to delete. When the pop up menu appears, select ‘Delete’ – and voila! The whole message chain will disappear.
We hope this helps!
