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How to Recover Deleted Messenger Conversations

You have mistakenly deleted an important conversation in Messenger, you need to recover files from a conversation you lost, or you simply regretted deleting the chat with that person you can't let go, and you don't know how to get it back. Here you will know how to get your conversation back on Facebook.

Communication has undoubtedly evolved with social networks, not only words are exchanged, but also photos, videos, audios, documents and links to websites. Communicating through Facebook Messenger is really very spontaneous and natural, so users of this app use it almost every day to talk about the most trivial things to the information that can be very important.

This problem has several ways to solve it, depending on the type of device you use, in addition, you will learn how to archive your conversations to purify your inbox and power recover these conversations without any problem.


View archived messages in Messenger

Reviewing your archived conversations is easier to do than say, there is no other way to unarchive your messages, just follow these simple steps and you will get there.

  1. Once in the FB Messenger application, in the search bar, type the name of the person or cat you you are looking to recover.
  2. A list of conversations will appear, first, the archived ones, select the correct cat, And there you have it !

As you can see, it is not complicated at all and it is a very efficient way to watch your old chats, without having your inbox cluttered.

If you want to delete definitely one of these cats, you just have to place the pointer over it, you will see the three dots…, you will click on it and you will choose the option "Remove" .

How to archive messages in Messenger

Archiving your conversations in Facebook Messenger is a way to hide without having to delete them , because they won't appear in your inbox until a new message arrives in those threads.

Archiving your conversations on Facebook Messenger via the web is a very simple trick that we will teach you below.

  1. Once in the Facebook Messenger application, we let's select the cat that we want to archive and the let's move to the left.
  2. Some options scroll, click on the 3 horizontal bars .
  3. At this point a box will appear with several options, we select “Archive”, and that's it!

As you can see, the conversation is gone from your inbox, but that doesn't mean it has been deleted, since it was only saved in some sort of hidden folder. To access this folder, you must continue reading below.

 

Is it possible to recover deleted conversations from Facebook Messenger?

If what you did with your conversation was delete it, unfortunately you will not be able to recover it . Even though we try to tell you a lot of tips the only thing you will get is waste time and we don't want that to happen. As you can see, Facebook Messenger does not have a “Recycle Bin” where deleted chats could be saved.

You can try to recover files by downloading file manager apps such as “ES File Explorer”, but we do not guarantee that you will be able to recover it if you permanently deleted it.

Here is a link to download the app, and we wish you every success in your search.

Download ES File Explorer

Take the following steps to try and recover some of what was lost, but as we warned you, nothing is guaranteed.

  1. Open the ES File Explorer app and enter "SD card storage" .
  2. Choose the folder  « Android « , because there we can find all the data relating to the applications that we have installed on our device.
  3. A file called " Data Will open, we will click on it, then a list of all the applications installed on our device will open.
  4. Select the called application   « com.facebook.orca « and click on it.
  5. Now click on the cache then on "fb_temp « , where you will find all the backup files that are constantly saved by Facebook Messenger.
  6. In this way, you can recover all the chats which are in the cache of the cell phone.

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