Archive Messages
Rather than just permanently delete messages, it would be fantastic if you could archive messages. This was one of the features in Google Hangouts that I used the most and found incredibly helpful.
Sometimes you want to clean up your inbox so you don't have hundreds of conversations floating around in it that you have to scroll through, but you don't necessarily want to lose some conversations forever by deleting them. The ability to Archive conversations in order to move them out of the main inbox view and into a separate archive view for later reference or search would be perfect here, and I believe would appeal to many users.
See the Google Hangouts app for more details on how this could and should work. Would love to see it in Textra! It would make it truly stand apart from the competition!
Matthew Redmond
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Peter
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I am deleting this app because there is no archive support. I have been a pro user for years, but I miss responding to some messages because they get buried
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Anonymous
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I love the app, but hate that you can't archive messages. Has this really been a feature request for years, with no change? :(
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Marco Beijen
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Archive is a must, when you receive x amount of text messages it is too easy to forget about following up on that text message you received while doing something else. Especially when you received 10 others right after.
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Debbie H
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I need to delete my earlier msgs and leave msgs for the past year and 1/2. I have msgs going back to 2015. How can I do this as a mass option, without having to delete thousands of msgs individually? Thanks
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Michael
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I don't see why this feature can't be implemented. In fact the lack of it is tempting me to replace Textra with another SMS client which I don't wish to do.
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Karl
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I really really really want to use Textra - I even paid for it. But I just can't without this feature. Messenger, pulse, and other apps do this easily, so maybe I don't understand something. It's now a common refrain from my friends, too.
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John Grill commented
This is literally the one thing that stopped me from using it as my everyday messaging app. Everything else about it is so clean and user-friendly. I just don't have a need to see all my messages every time I load the app. I don't want them deleted, just archived away.
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Matthew Jackson
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Not sure how textra does everything but no simple archive feature. I don't want everyone I've ever texted to be on my main screen. Is this feature ever coming?
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Scavar
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It's silly but this is legitimately the one thing making it difficult for me to switch from Messages permanently. So simple to archive stuff in Messages.
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Anonymous
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Please add archive!!!
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John Smith
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Archiving would make Textra perfect.
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jules
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Please Add archive for a complete conversation !
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Anonymous
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PLEASE add ARCHIVE!!!!
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Jarek
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Yes Please add Archive message :)
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Mark Lienard
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Disappointment to find no archive feature. Please add it!
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Megan Wardle
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YES I AGREE THAT TEXTRA WOULD BE EVEN MORE AMAZING WITH AN ARCHIVE FEATURE!!!
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Terry Brown
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Tried Bob's suggestion (archive in Google Messages, then delete in Textra). Don't think it works, when I deleted the messages from Textra the disappeared from the archived conversations list in Google Messages. So advising against that. Share via email doesn't seem ideal either, doesn't include images.
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www.HawaiianHope.org
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I just asked a somewhat related question.
Archive would be nice, but i would be happy if i could just eradicate all of the attached pictures that were sent out.
https://textra.uservoice.com/forums/208555-feedback/suggestions/34531180-how-to-clear-pictures-to-free-up-storage -
Anonymous
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bye bye Textra, just tried you out but now finding out you can't archive
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Bob
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Here's my work around: Keep Textra as default text app. When you want to archive, open up Google Messages and archive the messages you want to archive. Then go back to Textra and delete all the messages you just archived. The message will always be available in Google Messages so you can search and add to your replies, etc. This keeps your Textra box clean but retains your old messages.