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Archive a channel
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You can archive channels you no longer plan to use. Archiving a channel:
- Removes it from the left sidebar for all users.
- Prevents new messages from being sent to the channel.
- Prevents messages in the channel from being edited, deleted, or moved.
Archiving a channel does not remove subscribers, or change who can access it. Messages in archived channels still appear in search results, the combined feed, and recent conversations.
To hide the content in a channel, you can make it private and unsubscribe users from it prior to archiving.
Archive a channel
!!! warn ""
Channels can be [unarchived](#unarchiving-archived-channels) only by
[contacting support](/help/contact-support) for organizations hosted
on Zulip Cloud, or by your self-hosted server's administrator.
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{tab|desktop-web}
{relative|channel|all}
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Select a channel.
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Click the archive () icon in the upper right corner of the channel settings panel.
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Approve by clicking Confirm.
!!! tip ""
You can also hover over a channel in the left sidebar, click on the
**ellipsis** (<i class="zulip-icon zulip-icon-more-vertical"></i>), and
select **Channel settings** to access settings for the channel.
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Unarchiving archived channels
Zulip Cloud organizations that need to unarchive a channel can contact Zulip support.
If you are self-hosting, you can unarchive an archived channel using the
unarchive_channel management command. This will restore
it as a private channel with shared history, and subscribe all organization
owners to it.