How to Delete Messages

Keeping group chats and activity feeds organized sometimes requires deleting outdated or unnecessary messages and posts. This guide explains how deletion works in Onespot — for both Group Chat messages and Activity Feed posts/comments — including who can delete them and how to manage entire chat feeds.

Who Can Delete Messages and Posts?

Only admins or moderators/editors of a specific Group Chat or Activity Feed can delete its messages, posts, and comments.

• When you're an admin (or have edit permissions for that screen), you can delete messages and posts, your own or anyone else's.

🗯️ In a Group Chat, long-press the message (or use the … menu on the web) and choose Delete message. To copy a message’s text instead, choose Copy text from the same menu. See How to Copy a Message in a Group Chat.

🗯️ In an Activity Feed, tap the trash icon next to the post or comment.

• If you don't have those permissions, you won't see these delete options and won't be able to delete messages or posts, even your own.

To delete, you must either:

• Have the Superpowers permission (which allows you to manage/edit all screens), or
• Be assigned as a moderator/editor for that specific Group Chat or Activity Feed screen (see how to add an editor).

On an Activity Feed, this also covers deleting comments on a post, not just the post itself.

🚮 Can I Close an Entire Chat or Feed?

Yes. Instead of deleting it, you can archive it. Archiving removes everyone from the chat and stops new messages, but nothing is deleted, and an admin can bring it back anytime. See How to Archive or Unarchive a Group Chat.

If the chat or feed lives on a screen: delete the screen, and its chat is archived automatically. See How to Delete a Screen.

If the chat was started with the New Chat button: open the chat, tap the ⓘ info icon, then Archive chat under Danger Zone.

Want to keep it for later instead? You can hide the screen. Hiding is useful at the end of a school year or event, and you can unhide it anytime.