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title: Private conversations
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## Leave a multi-person conversation

Use **Leave conversation** in a multi-person conversation to remove yourself from
its members. After leaving, you no longer receive its messages or have access to
the conversation. Your other connected devices also remove it from the list.

Closing a conversation in the sidebar only hides it. You remain a member, and a
new message can bring it back. Leaving is available even when a multi-person
conversation has only one or two members left.

## Allow invitations only from friends

In **Settings → System settings**, enable **Only allow friends to invite me to
conversations**. This setting is off by default.

When enabled, someone must be in your friend list to include you in a new
multi-person conversation or add you to an existing one. This also applies when
an existing direct message is used to create a multi-person conversation.

The setting does not remove you from existing conversations or block one-to-one
direct messages. Leaving a conversation does not prevent a later invitation;
enable this setting if you want to reject invitations from non-friends.