How to Recover Deleted Facebook Messages

Accidentally deleted some of your important Facebook messages? And you are now trying to find a way to recover deleted Facebook messages? Well, this problem is quite common among Facebook users. Moreover, after Facebook Messenger was updated, some users felt a little confused when using it.

So what do you do to recover deleted Facebook messages? Fortunately, with a little knowledge, I will share my experience with you to be able to recover deleted messages on Facebook Messenger. So, let's see how to recover permanently deleted Facebook messages.

How to Recover Deleted Facebook Messages

1. Recover deleted messages via Archive

The famous line introduced to the world seems to really apply to Facebook Messenger as well. And the good news behind the saying, there may be a chance that you haven't deleted the message, you may have just archived it. The reason is, there is an “Archive” option right above the “Delete” button. Therefore, the chances are quite high for your messages to be archived and not deleted.

Let me assure you that even Archived messages don't show up in your recent conversations section. However, they are definitely not permanently deleted. So confirming your doubts by browsing archive message folders can bring a higher chance for you to retrieve your important Facebook messages.

Through the Facebook application on an Android/iPhone cellphone

Open the Facebook app on your smartphone and log in using your account.
Go to search and find out which conversations have been deleted or lost.
As soon as you find the chat you want, sending another text to the recipient will bring back all your archived conversations.
Open Facebook Messenger on your desktop.
Go to the Messages section.
Select the "gear" icon.
Press the "Hidden Chats" button .
A list of archived messages will open on your desktop.

Note: One important piece of information that you should keep in mind is, Facebook will retain deleted messages within 90 days. If you try to recover deleted messages after 90 days, the chances of recovering them are very slim.

2. Recover Deleted Facebook Messages via Web

Sometimes the message is accidentally deleted by the user. For this reason, luckily Facebook made a clear and easy way for its users to recover messages. With a little configuration, you can recover deleted facebook messages easily. Follow the steps below:

Open Facebook in a web browser and log in using your Facebook account.
Select the Settings tab in the top right corner and go to General Account Settings.
Locate and select the “Your Facebook Information” option on the left panel.
Press the “Download your information” button.
You will be redirected to another page, you are given the option to download messages or other valuable data since joining Facebook.
Whatever data you want to download, put a check mark next to the box and hit the "Create file" button.
Whenpressing the "Create file" option , Facebook will appear a pop-up on your screen saying your data download is being processed. You will receive a notification from Facebook as soon as the data is ready to be processed for download.
Press "Download" and provide your Facebook credentials (ID and Password) for security purposes.

Facebook will determine the associated email address and send a download link in your email inbox. Press the "Download Archive" button .

At last, you have to unzip the folder and choose the "Index" file and select the "messages" option containing all your messages. This you can easily recover deleted Facebook messages on your PC with a few easy steps.

The last step, you just unzip the downloaded folder earlier and select the "Index" file then select the "messages:" option which contains all your messages.