# Close a chat
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/close-a-chat/297444
**Category:** UX
**Tags:** chat, tablet
**Created:** [March 1, 2024, 10:55am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/close-a-chat/297444 "2024-03-01T10:55:38Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2024, 10:55am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/close-a-chat/297444/1 "2024-03-01T10:55:38Z")
When you want to close a personal chat and do not use mobile view, you have to hover on the chat with the mouse.
That doesn’t work using a tablet. When you tab the chat you can somehow move the date, but I’m not able to click the ✖
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### Author:  [@j.jaffeux](https://meta.discourse.org/u/j.jaffeux)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2024, 6:35am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/close-a-chat/297444/3 "2024-11-11T06:35:12Z")
I added the swipe months ago, should be a solved problem.
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### Author:  [@j.jaffeux](https://meta.discourse.org/u/j.jaffeux)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2024, 6:35am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/close-a-chat/297444/4 "2024-11-11T06:35:17Z")
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### Author:  [@j.jaffeux](https://meta.discourse.org/u/j.jaffeux)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2024, 8:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/close-a-chat/297444/5 "2024-11-11T08:17:24Z")
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### Author:  [@j.jaffeux](https://meta.discourse.org/u/j.jaffeux)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2024, 8:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/close-a-chat/297444/6 "2024-11-11T08:17:47Z")
Actually I answered too fast, this is about TOUCH + DESKTOP VIEW, which is still bad I agree.
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### Author:  [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2026, 9:35am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/close-a-chat/297444/7 "2026-08-19T09:35:28Z")
My workaround for a long time has been to use the x next to the chat in the sidebar. While that was a little difficult because the button was not visible due to the lack of hover on a tablet, it worked. I was able to remove a chat from my sidebar.
But it doesn’t work anymore. I think the button is no longer there. I think it’s now impossible to close a chat using a tablet.
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### Author:  [@renato](https://meta.discourse.org/u/renato)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2026, 9:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/close-a-chat/297444/8 "2026-08-19T09:41:41Z")
> [@Moin](#):
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> I think it’s now impossible to close a chat using a tablet.
I don’t a have a tablet handy to test, but on mobile you can long press to open the dropdown menu and then Leave or Close a channel, can you confirm this is also not working for you, please?
Thank you!
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### Author:  [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2026, 9:42am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/close-a-chat/297444/9 "2026-08-19T09:42:44Z")
What do I long press? Or which dropdown menu do you mean?
Edit: this
Does not work on my tablet.
But with some testing I found out that tapping the date/time works, because that clicks the invisible close button. I am not sure I would call that a solution. It felt more like a bad surprise because I didn’t want to remove the chat in this case.
But this menu with all the features it offers doesn’t seem to work on tablets. I think there are other places for all these features, but I guess there was a reason why you built this menu, so it would be nice if it was available for all users.
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### Author:  [@NateDhaliwal](https://meta.discourse.org/u/NateDhaliwal)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2026, 12:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/close-a-chat/297444/10 "2026-08-19T12:39:19Z")
I’m on my iPad so I’ll just chime in here. I have the X to close a chat, which appears when I click on the cat row (not the username to open the chat). However, if I were to swipe, I get an interesting behaviour. The X appears, but so does another x under it. The second one is enclosed in a circle, and swiping on the row moves the original x all the way to the username until the username is covered, but nothing is closed.
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### Author:  [@renato](https://meta.discourse.org/u/renato)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2026, 7:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/close-a-chat/297444/11 "2026-08-29T19:16:29Z")
I intend to merge this PR this week, it should address the reported tablet issue.
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> Previously, there was no reliable way to close or leave a chat channel on a tabl…et (touch + desktop view): the leave button required hover, the long-press menu only worked in mobile view, and the sidebar channel menu was hidden on all touch devices.
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> On touch devices that can't hover (\`@media (hover: none)\`) in desktop view, the leave button and the sidebar channel menu button are now always visible instead of hover-revealed, and long-press opens the channel menu. Swipe stays limited to the mobile layout, and narrow mobile view is untouched. The sidebar button had been hidden on touch (#41368, earlier #36969) so rows could be tapped to navigate without the hover reveal in the way. As a plainly visible button, row taps still navigate and the menu opens only from the button.
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> Reported in https://meta.discourse.org/t/close-a-chat/297444