Microsoft Teams will support deleting private chat threads
Microsoft has finally agreed to roll out a highly-requested feature to Microsoft Teams, the ability to delete private chat threads. At the moment, you can delete individual messages or hide or archive threads, but there’s no option to completely delete a thread of private messages. That’s going to change, according to a Microsoft engineer’s response to a UserVoice post.
Alex from the Microsoft Teams engineering team responded to the request:
Thank you for your feedback! The team has finalized the designs for this feature request, and work is planned to begin shortly. We will share an update as soon as one is available.
The ability to delete private chat threads has received a shocking amount of upvotes. At the time of publication, almost 20,000 people have expressed their desire to delete private chat threads.
Microsoft hasn’t committed to any timeframe for the feature, so it could be some time before we see it roll out to Teams. People seem to be quite passionate about the feature, as many comments complain that it isn’t already available and express doubt regarding Microsoft releasing it in a timely manner.
Several people in the UserVoice thread cite legal reasons as the driving factor behind wanting to delete messages.
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