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title: "Archiving WhatsApp Phone Capture Data"
slug: "archiving-whatsapp-phone-capture-data"
updated: 2025-05-02T10:58:30Z
published: 2025-07-18T06:56:44Z
canonical: "docs.smarsh.com/archiving-whatsapp-phone-capture-data"
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# Archiving WhatsApp Phone Capture Data

> **Applicable to Administrators**

You can archive the captured communication to a supported third-party storage destination. To archive the captured communication, inform the Smarsh onboarding team during onboarding.

Based on the third-party storage destination to which you choose to archive, Smarsh creates an Archiving Plan. An archiving plan includes the following entities:

- **Source**: Indicates the Capture Mobile application used to archive communications.
- **Destination/Policy**: Indicates the supported archiving destinations where communications are stored. You can archive to Smarsh Archiving destinations as well as to third-party storage systems such as **Microsoft 365**, **SMTP**, and **SFTP**. To configure archiving destinations such as Microsoft 365, SMTP, and SFTP, see [Connectors](/capture-mobile/docs/connectors).
- **Archive Plan**: Indicates the setting that maps a source to a destination.

As an admin, you can manage your assigned archive plans by assigning and unassigning users. For more information, see [Managing Archive Plans](/capture-mobile/docs/managingarchiveplansdoc).