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Please add feature to leave groups without delete history
Steps to reproduce
- Be in a group with messages/history
- Leave it
- Notice that the history is gone, since there is only a "delete and exit" feature
Expected behaviour
Add a exit group feature WITHOUT deleting the history
Configuration
Operating system: Windows
Version of Telegram Desktop: 1.5.15
As a temporary workaround: The Android "Plus Messenger" allows to do this. The history stays in the Telegram cloud and is accessible with all Telegram clients afterwards.
@Edicksonjga leaving/being removed from a supergroup deletes its history
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Hello ...May I know how to keep the history in the phone or desktop before leaving the group? is the issue solved? Is plus messenger to fix this issue ? If yes, may i know how to fix this? thx
@hweontey there are currently two/three ways to do that:
- Telegram X for Android lets you decide whether to clean the chat history or not when you leave a group
- ~you can use Telegram Web: open the group's members list, find your account in the list, hover on it with the mouse and use the "leave" option that will appear. This way you'll retain the history~ the option changed
- bonus: ask an admin to kick you using a Telegram mobile app pre-7.4 or a Telegram Desktop version pre-2.5.7
On all official apps, leaving a group also means deleting the chat history. IMPORTANT: the methods I've just described only work with normal groups. In fact, there is no way to leave a supergroup without loosing the chat history.
Anyway, before leaving the group, you can always export it using Telegram Desktop
you can use Telegram Web: open the group's members list, find your account in the list, hover on it with the mouse and use the "leave" option that will appear. This way you'll retain the history
The "leave" button you claim to have is called "Delete and exit" for me, so that's probably won't work (and I definitely won't try it).
Has anyone experimented with leaving groups over a Matrix bridge? Maybe if the bridge also does chat backfilling, you'd leave the group and keep the history on Matrix. (This issue is a good reminder that it's time to ditch Telegram)
The "leave" button you claim to have is called "Delete and exit" for me, so that's probably won't work (and I definitely won't try it).
Yes you are right, they probably changed it and I didn't notice
Update: neither the Telegram X nor the Plus Messenger workarounds work anymore. This is super frustrating, how is this not a feature yet?
