How to Clear Recents on Snapchat
Keeping your Snapchat history is useful in some situations, and not recommendable in others.
Whether you want just to delete conversations or hide an explicit recent chat, you are on your right to do so.
Snapchat Recents keeps part of your personal information of history, snaps, and chats, in a dedicated tab that users can check whenever they want.
But keeping your recent app activity on your Snapchat account isn’t a good call in all scenarios, so if you need to clear Snapchat Recents, doing so is elementary.
Continue reading this informational blog post to learn more about:
- How to clear recents on Snapchat in a few seconds;
- What to know about deleting your data on the Snapchat application;
- Deleting recent chats, search, and scan history.
Cleaning Snapchat Search History and Chat History
Snapchat is one of the most popular social media platforms in the United States, and it allows you to communicate with your friends and family in easy ways.
It can be used both on iOS and Android devices, and using the Snapchat app is an activity that millions of users perform every day.
What’s more, Snapchat offers the possibility to manage your data, including your chat settings, old snaps, and recent actual snaps sent from the Snapchat app.
Snapchatters can download their data and even erase discussions on both ends, which provides an extra layer of privacy that some other platforms don’t have.
Pro Tip: Your Snapchat account can be as private or as public as you want it to be. You can even Hide Your Snap Score from others if you must!
Learn how to do this by reading our dedicated blog post.
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How to Clear Recents on Snapchat
Your Snapchat Recent List keeps the information of your history in one place.
This information won’t be automatically removed - you need to do it manually.
You can delete search history, clear scan history, and get rid of your recent searches by following the steps we are about to show you.
Keep in mind that you can clear search history in the same way whether you own an iOS or an Android device.
Without further ado, let’s get rid of your Snapchat history in no time!
Read Also: Snapchat Recents keeps track of your conversations on your chat history, but is it possible to Unsend Snaps in recent chats without removing chat history?
Check out the answer to this question in our related article!
1. Clear Recent Search History on Snapchat
You can delete recents searches on Snapchat by following the next steps on your phone.
Step 1: Open Snapchat
Firstly, log in to your Snapchat account as you usually do. You need to go to your profile screen, so proceed as stated in the following step.
Step 2: Open Settings and Go to Account Actions
In order to open the settings option, you must look for the gear symbol on the top right corner of the screen.
Tap on the gear icon, scroll down in the drop-down menu, and search for the option that says “ Clear Search History.”
Step 3: Select “Clear Search History”
Your recent Snapchat history can’t be deleted one by one, but you can get the slate clean by simply tapping the “Clear All” option.
This way, your history will disappear from Snapchat recents, and you will be good to go!
2. Clear Conversations on Snapchat
On the other hand, erasing recent conversations is also possible.
The procedure is almost the same, so let’s look for your Snapchat Conversation History, and let’s get rid of it in no time!
Also, check out the previously mentioned blog post to learn more about your old chats and your chat list inside the application!
Step 1: Open Account Settings Menu
Then again, open Snapchat, and go to the settings menu as you did in the previous step.
Step 2: Select “Clear Conversations”
Remember that, in order to reach this menu, you need to go to “Account Actions.”
Step 3: Remove Recent Conversations Manually or Clear Them All
From this screen, you can delete individual discussions easily! Just select the conversations that you want to delete, and delete them one by one.
This way, you don’t need to get rid of all the chats and conversations on your profile.
You can simply delete the conversations and chats you don’t want to keep on Snapchat, which is really useful in some cases.
On the other hand, if you want to perform a more comprehensive cleansing, just tap on the “Clear” button at the top center of the list.
Tapping on this button will delete all recent conversations, so be sure that you know what you are doing.
That’s how you do it! Managing your Snapchat recent history is really easy, as you can see.
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FAQ
Can I Clear Conversation That Someone Else Saved?
Yes, indeed you can. Nevertheless, doing so requires you to know the steps to complete this process on Snapchat.
Learn more about this matter here: Delete Snapchat Messages Other Person Saved.
Karen is a senior technical writer and copywriter here at GrowFollowing. Her area of expertize are social media apps and new media.