This would be such a simple but great feature.

Allow you to archive a conversation. It hides from normal view, can be seen under an Achieved view. You can have a setting for what happens if a message is then sent to that conversation - Nothing, or move back to normal view. This would be so monumentally useful for cleaning up conversations when you want to keep the history to remember who they are.

Quite an old request. At this point, I'd recommend referencing Telegram over Hangouts. I had typed out a whole thing about this feature before I saw this post, so I'm just gonna post what I had:

Add an "archive" view, kind of like the notes view. Conversations could be archived from the same swipe menu that the "delete" option is in.

Archiving a conversation would NOT mute it automatically, so when an archived conversation received a new message, maybe it could either automatically un-archive itself or it could prompt the user to decide what to do (maybe make this customizable in the app's settings?).
However, a muted AND archived conversation would NOT automatically un-archive itself OR prompt the user to un-archive it.

If I'm not mistaken, you can archive through the native app. Even with that ability I use an app called SMS backup and restore. Having a dedicated app for it is hands down superior to any in-app archiving available. It lets me set a schedule, "backup now", extremely easy restore, transfer (get a new phone and transfer your backups and active conversations). You can view any and all groups of backups together or separately, always run full backups, archive mode (add new messages to the same file), or incremental (new backup files for only the messages since the last backup).
With it I can backup messages, call logs, with or without attachments of photos, video, and other media, restore RCS/advanced messages, SELECTED CONVERSATIONS allows me to choose to backup all conversations or just specific conversations, Limit to date ranges, "Add readable date" converts the various ways phone manufacturers set dates, for example...timestamps of 1674706203000 probably means little to anyone that isn't familiar with UNIX time. So it converts it for you and you can select from about 15 different ways to view it from 1/25/23 10:13PM to Wednesday, January 25, 2023 10:13:32 PM Central Standard Time. Or 2023/25/01 22:13:32....however you prefer, it saves it. You can turn on the addition of an XSL tag that makes the backups viewable in a browser, turn on or off a function to show contact names.....Plus dark theme, option to enable password protection, time-zone correction, multiple languages....And save backups locally, (To phone or SD card) or to Google Drive, Dropbox, or OneDrive, . And that's the FREE version with no ads that i've ever see except a small bar at the top when first launched. There's a PRO version for a few bucks that adds encryption and zip compression.

That's an awfully lot of things that go with message backups so I don't see this being added or necessary when it is so well covered by a free app. I'd rather they spend the time that it would take to do all of that on the core with a few nice things like a web chat interface, bringing the color picker up to date with a standard modern color picker, and add search to individual messages rather than just relying on the global search....and a half-dozen other little things.

If archive conversations is added to Textra it will be perfect , please add this feature .

This is partly why I stopped using Textra. That and web messaging... I switched back to Google Messages :(

Pleaseeeee add! All other messaging applications already have this feature :)

Where are my mails...

I was just fixing to ask if this app had it where u could archive messages, it's what exactly i was looking for in a messaging app

This is the only feature I'm desperately missing. Please add!

Obviously the developers no longer care about this app because still no archive ability yet numerous bug improvemebts

7500+ votes and still no archive feature. Come on Devs..you throw out new updates all the time and yet this still isn't one of them??

Love the app but don't use it any longer due to basic things like the option to archive messages

How is it 2020 and this still isn't an option...

The Devs keep coming out with new updates but yet Archiving still isn't an option. I paid for this app and I'm going to have to walk away from it.

Wow... So they really DON'T have an archive. Not sure what the purpose of Mute is when I can still see the messages. I'm going to be very honest: It distresses me tremendously to have to see formerly archived messages now show up in my conversation list. I need blank screens to confirm I don't have outstanding messages.

After reading all the posts here it's now obvious Dev doesn't care. I'm stoppig my use, other may not have all the features this has but they do have archive.

I'll add my voice to this string. It is extremely annoying that I can't make old messages disappear from the screen without deleting them. This one feature would make the app perfect for me. As it is, I may just switch back to Google's messaging app. It doesn't have the customization, but I don't have to keep messages on my screen to keep an archive of them.

I would actually like a import export system simmilar to how PST files work on outlook. you would be able to export textra archives to the PC where you dont have limited storage issues with modern HDD's 10 gigs of mms is practically nothing. when needed those archive files can be moved back onto the sd by date range and opened in the app. I feel like this is the best way to go here because simple archiving stuff and removing it from the view does not move it off the phones internal dialer storage and you can only compress data so far ....

The fact that this hasn't been added in all this time shows the dev really doesn't listen or care. Everything else about this app is great, but archiving isn't a feature that's just 'nice to have', it's pretty damn important. So frustrating. I'm not going to be able to continue using it, and that sucks. Boo.

Agree, this is the only feature I'm desperately missing. Please add!