How to View Deleted Facebook Messages with Simple Tricks that Take Seconds

YOU won’t be the first to delete a message on Facebook and later realize you need it.

Many people don’t realize that there are actually some ways to try to recover them.

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If you’ve made this common mistake, check if these tips work.

1. Review archived conversations

If you archived a conversation, rather than deleting it entirely, you should be able to recover messages very easily.

All you have to do is find the contact in question and once you open it everything should come back.

2. Check your email

If you get email notifications from Facebook Messenger, you might find what you’re looking for in your inbox.

Search and see what comes up.

3. Android file manager

There is a sneaky way to recover messages when using Android.

And it has everything to do with the cache and the file manager.

If you don’t already have a file manager app, you can download a free one from Google Play.

Once you have one, open it up and go to it Internal memoryfollowed by com.facebook.katanathen fb_temp.

Here you should see all the news from the recent past.

4. Download Facebook information

Facebook has a handy data download feature on its website where the news you’re looking for might be lurking.

Open Settings and go to Your Facebook informationfollowed by Download your information.

Choose a date range – keep it as narrow as possible, otherwise the download might take a while.

blow deselect all and tick manually announcements just.

Finally tap Request a download below and it will be emailed to you once it’s ready.

5. Ask the person

The very last option is to simply ask the person for a copy of the conversation – if that’s a viable option, of course.

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