WhatsApp brings new Archived button to app

Quietly a new feature has been added to the WhatsApp app on your Android device. From now on you can access your archived chats even faster.

WhatsApp Archived

If you open WhatsApp from today, you will notice that a few things have changed in the design. The shortcut ‘Archived’ can be seen at the top of the screen. The feature has been made available through a server-side update.

The archived messages themselves are not new to WhatsApp. Since 2014 it is possible in WhatsApp to hide a chat with someone from the chat list. This is then collected in the overview of archived chats. Until now, you always found this at the very bottom of your chats. With a lot of chats it was just a matter of scrolling here. Now WhatsApp has made it easier to view archived messages. From now on you will find your new option ‘Archived’ at the top.

When you open this shortcut for the first time, you get a short explanation about the function. This makes it clear that with new messages in archived chats, you will not receive a notification when a new message appears. You can, however, disable this in the settings, so that you are kept informed about this.

You don’t need to do anything for a change in archived chats. WhatsApp automatically rolls this out to you.