If you use it often, your ChatGPT sidebar is probably cluttered with old, unnecessary conversations that you barely use. There may even be sensitive conversations that you don’t want anyone else to see. (What happens on ChatGPT, stays on ChatGPT.) Until now, the only way to remove a conversation from the sidebar was to delete it. This meant that you had to export the chat itself somewhere else if you were interested in keeping it. But now, ChatGPT has added an option to archive chats without actually deleting them. It’s currently available on the iPhone app and on the web, with an Android update rolling out soon.

First, update your ChatGPT iPhone app to the latest version and then go to the sidebar. From there, tap and hold on a chat, choose the new Archive button from the context menu and tap the Archive button in the pop-up to confirm. This will immediately remove the chat from the list.

You can find all of your archived chats in Settings. Open the sidebar with the Menu button in the top left corner and tap the three-dot Menu button next to your name. This will open the Settings screen. From here, select Archived Chats and voila! All of your hidden chats will be there. Tap on a chat to view, unarchive, or delete it.

Archiving chats works a little differently on the web: Open the ChatGPT website and click on the chat you want to archive. When you do this, you will see a three-dot menu appear next to the chat name. Click on it and press the Archive Chat button to archive the current chat.