How to deactivate a community

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You can deactivate a community for all members if you’re the community owner.
When you deactivate a community, all the groups you and other members belong to will be unlinked from the community.
You can find former community groups in the Chats tab. No one will be able to send messages in general chat or the announcements group.
Note: There’s no way to reactivate a deactivated community.

Deactivate a community

  1. Go to the Communities tab and click the community you want to deactivate.
  2. Click
    more options
    > Community info.
  3. Click Deactivate community > Deactivate > Deactivate.
Once you’ve deactivated the community, you’ll see the groups that belonged to that community in your Chats tab.
You can continue to interact with these groups, except Announcements and General chat.
But, you can view messages sent in those groups.
You can exit and delete any groups in your Chats tab. Learn how to exit and delete groups.
Note:
  • Only the admin who created the community can deactivate the community for everyone.
  • When a community is successfully deactivated, all groups will be unlinked from the community.
  • Excluding General chat and announcement groups, groups that are unlinked from the community will continue to work as a regular group in the Chats tab.
  • If you deactivate your WhatsApp account, your communities and announcement groups will also be deactivated. Community admins and members will be removed from the community and announcement groups.
  • There’s no way to reactivate a deactivated community.

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