What Happens When You Delete a Contact on WhatsApp?

When you delete a contact on WhatsApp, it means that you no longer have access to that particular person’s messages or contact info. This includes their profile photo, status, and any other information they may have shared with you. Although the contact is removed from your contacts list, the messages they sent you remain in your WhatsApp chat history.

The process of deleting a contact on WhatsApp is relatively simple. You can delete contacts from your phone’s address book or directly from the WhatsApp application.

To delete a contact from your address book, find the contact in your contacts list and then select the “delete” option. On some phones, this option might be hidden under another menu option such as “edit” or “delete contact”. You can also delete a contact directly from within the WhatsApp application by going to “Contacts” and then selecting the person you want to remove and then tapping on “delete”.

Once a contact is deleted, all of their information disappears from your contacts list and their profile photo will no longer appear in conversations with them. Any messages they have sent you are still accessible in your chat history but their name will not appear with those messages any longer. If they send you new messages after they have been deleted, their name will appear as “Unknown Contact” within that conversation thread until they are added back into your contacts list.

You can re-add deleted contacts at any time by searching for them in your address book and adding them to WhatsApp as if they were never deleted in the first place. Once a contact is re-added, all of their previous conversations will be restored as well as all of their information such as profile photo, status updates, etc.

In summary, when you delete a contact on WhatsApp it removes them from your contacts list and removes any information associated with them such as profile photos or status updates. However, any messages they have sent you remain in chat history but without their name attached until they are re-added back into your contacts list at which point everything is restored to its original state before the deletion took place.

Conclusion:

Deleting a contact on WhatsApp removes them from your contacts list and removes all associated information about them but does not remove any past conversations that were shared between both parties prior to deletion. The deleted person’s name will appear as “Unknown Contact” when sending new messages until re-added back into the address book at which point all conversations and associated data will be restored.