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DavidZhangNHH
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Jun 05, 2025

Weird Teams product design

I just noticed that Teams does not allow users to delete the messages sent by others, but only allows users to delete the messages sent by themselves. This is different from a lot of IM software, e.g., WhatsApp, Telegram, and WeChat. However, Teams allow users to delete the whole conversation history with other users, which definitely contains the messages sent by others. 

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  • Yeah, that’s a weird design choice. You can’t delete someone else’s message, but you can wipe the whole chat, including their messages. 

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