By SecureChitChat · Published September 4, 2026 · Updated September 10, 2026
There is one session-level exit, not a per-room close button
A common question is how to close a single conversation. In the current version there is no separate "close this one room" control: the chat has one exit, Leave Session, and it ends your whole guest session for that browser — all open conversations at once.
Between conversations you also can simply open a room with someone else; existing rooms stay in your list while the session is active. If you truly want to be done, Leave Session is the way.
Step by step, what Leave Session does
When you press Leave Session, several things happen together:
- Any other open tabs of the same browser profile are told the session is ending, so they stop acting as the same identity.
- The app closes its chat and presence connections.
- The backend is told you have finished, which releases your display name for someone else to use.
- The app removes its copy of the session from your browser's local storage.
- Open conversations and unread counters are cleared from browser memory.
- You are returned to the home page.
What disappears, and what doesn't
What disappears from your browser: the session itself, the list of conversations, unread counts and everything the app kept in memory. After leaving, visiting the site again is like arriving for the first time.
What does not automatically vanish: anything you already sent is out of your hands once the other person has it, and a partner can screenshot a conversation regardless of whether the service stores it. This page describes the browser side of leaving; the Privacy Policy covers how the service handles the information it processes.
Starting over after leaving
After you leave, you go back to the home page. To chat again you create a new guest profile — pick a display name and your details once more. Because your previous name was released, another person may have taken it in the meantime; if so, choose a different one.
If you simply close the tab instead
Leaving and closing the tab are different things. If you close the tab without pressing Leave Session, the temporary session stays in the browser until it expires, so on your next visit your browser profile is still treated as signed in. Your past rooms are not restored, though, because conversations are kept in the memory of the open page rather than stored.
The practical upshot: to completely end a session in that browser, press Leave Session rather than just closing the window.
Why this design
A session that can be ended cleanly is part of the temporary-conversation philosophy: no long-lived identity to carry around, and a simple way to start fresh. For more on the thinking behind it, read how SecureChitChat is designed around temporary conversations.