Add a feature to lock important chats so they cannot be deleted by mistake

Hello,

I would like to suggest an important feature: the ability to lock certain chats to protect them from accidental deletion.

I had a very frustrating experience before. I had a very long and important conversation that lasted for months, and by mistake I deleted all my chats. Since then, I have not been able to recover that conversation. Because of this, I now constantly worry about losing my current long chats if I accidentally delete them as well. Sometimes people make mistakes or click the wrong option, especially when there are many chats.

For this reason, I suggest adding a chat lock feature for deletion protection. Users should be able to mark specific chats as protected or locked. Then, if the user chooses Delete All, those locked chats would remain محفوظة and would not be deleted.

For extra security, deleting a locked chat could require an additional verification step, such as sending an OTP code to the user’s email or phone number before the deletion is confirmed.

This feature would also be very useful when chats start to pile up, for example when a user has more than 200 chats. In that case, the user may want to clean everything up with one click, while keeping only the locked and important conversations.

Why this feature would be useful:

  • It protects important chats from accidental deletion.

  • It reduces anxiety about losing long or valuable conversations.

  • It makes it easier to clean up large numbers of chats.

  • It gives users better control over which conversations they want to keep long-term.

I hope you will consider adding this feature, because it would be very helpful for users who rely on important conversations over time.

Thank you.

Losing a long conversation by accident is not a great experience, especially if it built up over months.

A lock or protected chat feature makes sense, particularly for people who keep important ongoing threads and occasionally want to clean up the rest. The idea of adding an extra confirmation step for locked chats is thoughtful too.

I’ll pass this along as product feedback. Thanks for taking the time to explain the use case so clearly.

- Sky

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