From 3168e8bceaf46fff65d7f28512c972b6d1040059 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marius Kleidl <marius.kleidl@getstream.io>
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2026 12:09:29 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] feat: support conversations: keep in deleteUsers

---
 src/client.ts | 4 ++--
 src/types.ts  | 5 +++--
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/client.ts b/src/client.ts
index 06989bfa9a..73ad613b76 100644
--- a/src/client.ts
+++ b/src/client.ts
@@ -4656,10 +4656,10 @@ export class StreamChat {
     }
     if (
       typeof options.conversations !== 'undefined' &&
-      !['soft', 'hard'].includes(options.conversations)
+      !['soft', 'hard', 'keep'].includes(options.conversations)
     ) {
       throw new Error(
-        'Invalid delete user options. conversations must be one of [soft hard]',
+        'Invalid delete user options. conversations must be one of [soft hard keep]',
       );
     }
     if (
diff --git a/src/types.ts b/src/types.ts
index 550ac57bc3..b1bb56b638 100644
--- a/src/types.ts
+++ b/src/types.ts
@@ -3328,10 +3328,11 @@ export type DeleteType = 'soft' | 'hard' | 'pruning';
   `user`:
     - soft: marks user as deleted and retains all user data
     - pruning: marks user as deleted and nullifies user information
-    - hard: deletes user completely - this requires hard option for messages and conversation as well
+    - hard: deletes user completely - this requires hard option for messages, and hard or keep option for conversations
   `conversations`:
     - soft: marks all conversation channels as deleted (same effect as Delete Channels with 'hard' option disabled)
     - hard: deletes channel and all its data completely including messages (same effect as Delete Channels with 'hard' option enabled)
+    - keep: doesn't delete any conversation channels. Use it with user hard, where an unset value defaults to hard
   `messages`:
     - soft: marks all user messages as deleted without removing any related message data
     - pruning: marks all user messages as deleted, nullifies message information and removes some message data such as reactions and flags
@@ -3339,7 +3340,7 @@ export type DeleteType = 'soft' | 'hard' | 'pruning';
   `new_channel_owner_id`: any channels owned by the hard-deleted user will be transferred to this user ID
  */
 export type DeleteUserOptions = {
-  conversations?: Exclude<DeleteType, 'pruning'>;
+  conversations?: Exclude<DeleteType, 'pruning'> | 'keep';
   messages?: DeleteType;
   new_channel_owner_id?: string;
   user?: DeleteType;