How to Export Microsoft Teams Chat History in 2026
Current v6.1 guide: select chats or channels, save them to the local Viewer, use Long Chat Mode for older history, and export PDF, HTML, or TXT.
Current guides for the v6.1 local Viewer, chat and channel discovery, Long Chat Mode, and PDF, HTML, and TXT exports.
Current v6.1 guide: select chats or channels, save them to the local Viewer, use Long Chat Mode for older history, and export PDF, HTML, or TXT.
Discover how Teams Chat Backup v3.3 dramatically improved backup performance with DOM caching, parallel downloads, and O(n) algorithms. Learn about the optimizations that make backups 3x faster.
Archived guide for older screenshot-era releases. Current v6.1 uses a viewer-first backup flow; see the featured 2026 guide for current instructions.
Learn how to use Long Chat Mode to backup entire conversation histories spanning months or years. Perfect for archiving long-running projects and compliance requirements.
Transform static backups into interactive archives. Search across messages, edit content, star important items, and manage your backed-up Teams conversations.
Save hours with multi-chat selection. Learn how to backup multiple Microsoft Teams conversations in a single operation for bulk project archival and department backups.
Learn how to backup file attachments from Microsoft Teams chats including SharePoint and OneDrive files. Keep your documents alongside conversation context.
Complete guide to backing up Microsoft Teams channels and group conversations. Learn the differences between chat and channel backups with step-by-step instructions.
Teams Chat Backup works with conversations in Korean, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, and 50+ languages. Full Unicode support preserves all characters perfectly.
Understand when a user-controlled local copy is useful and when your organization needs Microsoft Graph Export, Purview, legal hold, or another approved compliance process.
Archived guidance for older releases. A local user copy does not override an organization's retention, legal-hold, or records-management obligations.
Review a saved backup first, then download PDF, self-contained HTML, or searchable TXT.
Conversation content stays in the extension's browser database; optional license checks use no chat content.
Use local copies responsibly and follow your organization's retention, legal-hold, and access-control policies.
Save Teams chats and channels to a local Viewer, then export PDF, HTML, or TXT.
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