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You can delete chat messages In Microsoft Teams after you've sent them, but you can only hide messages from other users.

You can delete a message on WhatsApp so that it will no longer appear in the chat for yourself, or for everyone else.

With more than a decade of experience, Nelson covers Apple and Google and writes about iPhone and Android features, privacy and security settings, and more. Have you ever been cleaning out your texts ...