How to Easily Delete a WhatsApp Group: A Step-by-Step Guide
WhatsApp groups are a great way to keep everyone in the loop — whether you’re planning a night out, sharing a joke, or keeping in touch with your closest friends.
But other times, a group grows bigger than it needs to be or just goes dormant—and it dies.
Fortunately, removing yourself from a group and cleaning up space in your chat list is easy. Here’s a step-by-step guide on how to leave a WhatsApp group. Let's dive in!
Things to Know Before Deleting a WhatsApp Group
Before you resort to the delete key, remember the following:
You Need Admin Rights: Only the group creator or an admin has the power to delete a Facebook group. If you want to delete a Facebook group but you are not an admin, please ask the admin of the group to assist you.
To delete the group you will have to remove each member first and then leave the group.
When you delete a group, the group will disappear from your Chats list. The group's chat history will be erased from your phone. However, it won’t affect the other members — they will continue to see the group in their lists until they decide to also delete it.
What Happens to People When They’re Removed: If you remove a member from the group, they’ll still show up in the “Past Members” section and you may still see their profile picture for up to 60 days.
How to Leave Without Deleting Members: If you simply leave the group without deleting, the group remains for others — it will just no longer be accessible to you.
Admin Shuffle: If you’re the only admin, and you leave the group, WhatsApp will assign admin status to a random member in the group. After you re-join, you can then ask someone in the group to make you an admin again.
Okay, let’s get rid of that group now! Consider the above points to do it well.
Steps to Exit and Delete a WhatsApp Group as an Admin
If you're a group admin, you can delete the group. You'll have to remove each member before you can delete the group.
The following is a step-by-step guide for moving courses, focusing mostly on the web version as it is usually the most user-friendly for these steps.
Q&A
Do I have to remove each member one by one to remove a group? Is there a shortcut?
Unfortunately, there’s no one-click option to just delete the group - you have to remove all members first. Then you can delete the group yourself.
1. Remove Group Members (One by One)
First things first: in order to exit and also delete the group, you must first remove each participant. Here’s how you do it on WhatsApp Web:
Open the group chat and click on the group name at the top of the screen.
Hover your cursor over the name of the person you want to remove.
Click the three dots (or the options button) next to their name, then select Remove and confirm by clicking Remove again.
Repeat this process for every group member until everyone has been removed.
2. Exit the Group
Once you’ve removed all the members, you can exit the group.
Open the group chat and click on the group name at the top.
Scroll down and click Exit group.
Confirm by selecting Exit group again.
If this group is part of a community, exiting will also remove you from the entire community and any other groups in it.
3. Delete the Group
Now that the group is empty, you can delete it entirely from your device.
With the group chat open, click on the group name at the top.
Scroll down and click Delete group.
Confirm by clicking Delete group once more.
When you delete the group, it’s permanently gone. There is no way to restore a group that’s been deleted, so be certain you want to delete the group before moving forward. If you do want the group again, you can always create a new one.
How to Delete a WhatsApp Group on iPhone or Android
The following are steps to delete a WhatsApp group if you're on iPhone or Android:
Open WhatsApp and tap on "Chats."
Tap the group chat you want to delete.
Scroll down and tap on a member's name, then select Remove from Group and confirm by tapping Remove.
Repeat the steps to remove all other members.
Once everyone is removed, choose Exit Group.
After exiting, you’ll see the option to Delete Group. Tap it and confirm
The End
And you’re off! Whether you do it on the web, on your iPhone or on Android, it’s relatively painless: just make sure to take everyone out of the WhatsApp group, get out of the group, and then delete the group. Enjoy!
