After the Microsoft accusation of Skype, it began to store your message
in the cloud to hold them while your contacts are offline. It also holds
them permanently to sync them across devices. This had made dealing with
chat history hard.
If you don't remove messages from the desktop client soon after sending them, there remains no way for you to delete them. At least from the desktop client. You can delete you entire Skype history, but that may not be always desirable.
To delete your entire history on a PC:
1. Go to Tools>options>Privacy.
2. Click on clear history and you are done.
To delete your chat history with only one contact, you have to do the following:
1. Log out of all the clients. You can use the command "/remotelogout" on any client.
2. Delete the local history from every device. For mobile, uninstall and reinstall Skype after logging out.
For PCs:
3. Delete history from the cloud. To do this, you must have a Microsoft live account linked to your Skype id.
Login Skype on a windows phone device with your linked Microsoft account.
Yep, you'll need to borrow a WP device if you don't have one.
Open your conversation and you can delete the history there. Tap the 3 dots and then tap "Clear history". It will say that "Chat history will be cleared from this device only." Ignore that.
Now this conversation is deleted from the cloud and we deleted it from all the offline storage. When you Login on your devices again, all your history will be restored except the one you just deleted.
If you are on a different platform or have any other doubt, please leave a comment.
If you don't remove messages from the desktop client soon after sending them, there remains no way for you to delete them. At least from the desktop client. You can delete you entire Skype history, but that may not be always desirable.
To delete your entire history on a PC:
1. Go to Tools>options>Privacy.
2. Click on clear history and you are done.
To delete your chat history with only one contact, you have to do the following:
1. Log out of all the clients. You can use the command "/remotelogout" on any client.
2. Delete the local history from every device. For mobile, uninstall and reinstall Skype after logging out.
For PCs:
on your keyboard, then press R
to bring up the Run window. If you are using a touch screen device on
Windows 8, you can bring up the Run window from the Search charm.Login Skype on a windows phone device with your linked Microsoft account.
Yep, you'll need to borrow a WP device if you don't have one.
Open your conversation and you can delete the history there. Tap the 3 dots and then tap "Clear history". It will say that "Chat history will be cleared from this device only." Ignore that.
Now this conversation is deleted from the cloud and we deleted it from all the offline storage. When you Login on your devices again, all your history will be restored except the one you just deleted.
If you are on a different platform or have any other doubt, please leave a comment.
