Accidentally deleted your facebook message or chat without knowing it was important?
If this is the case, then it is important to know how to recover a deleted facebook message.
No need to panic, you can still recover it.
In this article, we will take a look at some ways on how to recover deleted Facebook messages on phone (android or apple iphone device) & PC also. We won’t be going over all the steps involved in recovering your messages on Facebook. In fact, you can recover all your data for upto 90 days.
Note: If your girlfriend/boyfriend gives you the login credentials and pretends to be 100% loyal to you, then wait. With the help of this article, you will be able to retrieve deleted chats and messages from the chat section.
Importance of Recovering Your Missing Facebook Messages
Facebook has been one of the social media sites that people have been using for a long time. Facebook is one of the most popular social media sites and has more than two billion users worldwide. It is also one of the most popular websites in the world where people can share their life experiences with their friends and family.
But, its popularity can be a curse as well.
Facebook has had its share of users who have deleted their Facebook accounts accidentally or because they were hacked by cyber criminals or hackers.
Some users do not want to delete their accounts or delete it because they don’t want to lose all the data that was stored in their account after they signed up for a year or more ago.
5 Ways to recover deleted facebook messages
S.No. | Recovery method |
1. | How to recover deleted facebook messages on messenger |
2. | How to recover deleted facebook message on android |
3. | How to find deleted Facebook messages on iPhone |
4. | How to recover permanently deleted messages on Facebook on PC |
5. | How to recover deleted data from friends on facebook |
How to recover deleted facebook messages on messenger
This method works when you don't delete the message but accidentally achieve it and don't know where to find that message chat. Even you don't need any facebook messenger recovery tool.
Follow the steps:
- Open Messenger on your phone.
- Now see your profile photo on top left corner.
- Click on that photo and scroll down.
- You will find Archived chats in the Preferences section.
- Click on Archived chats. You can now see the chats which disappeared from the main page of messenger.
- Now long press on the chat which you want to recover.
- Click on "Unarchive".
- Hurray..!! You recovered your unarchived chat successfully.
How to recover deleted facebook message on android
This method works when you don't have a PC or laptop system. Or if you don't want to go to any technician to recover your important chats. It may reveal some personal information.
Pickup your android device and start following these instructions:
- Download Zarchiver app from Play Store (Required to extract data from facebook)
- Open Facebook app.
- Now see the 3 lines on top right corner with the bell icon.
- click on the 3 lines and scroll down till the end.
- Here you will find "Settings & Privacy" option above the Log Out button.
- Go to "Settings & Privacy" and then click "Settings".
- Scroll down and find "Download your Information" option.
- Click on download your information and you can see number of options here. Deselect all and only choose "Messages" option because you want to recover deleted messages.
- Scroll down and set the Date range from which date you want the messages to be recovered.
- Click on "Create File" option below.
- Facebook starts creating a copy of your file within 5 to 10 minutes. You can see this is in pending state.
- Once the file is created it can now send you a notification that your file is now ready to download.
- Click on the notification and your file is now ready to download. Click on download button.
- It will redirect you to a new window which will ask you to enter your facebook password.
- Your password must required to download this file. Because this information is only for you and very confidential.
- After entering password, click on continue.
- Your file is downloading in the background.
- Now come back and open that Zarchiver app which you downloaded on your mobile.
- Disconnect your mobile data/ internet connection.
- Go to Download folder and search for a zip file named with facebook-xyz.zip (xyz is your name or any name).
- Click on the file and select view.
- Go to messages > Inbox
- Here you will see number of messages. Find out your important message or open the folder one by one.
- Click on message html file and open in chrome browser.
- Chrome will ask you to download the file. Click on download. (Don't worry. it will start downloading without internet).
- It will show you a message to open file. Now you can read the entire message.
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How to find deleted Facebook messages on iPhone
The method to recover deleted facebook messages on iphone is similar as android. Pickup your android device and start following these instructions:
- Launch facebook app in your iphone
- Tap the menu icon (3 lines) on the lower right corner
- Scroll down to find "Settings & Privacy" and tap "Settings" to proceed.
- Simply scroll down to the "Download your information" option and tap on it.
- On the next page you see the number of options. Deselect all and only select "Messages" option.
- Scroll down till the end and specify a date range. Select the date from the data you want to recover to the date whatever you want and click on "Create File".
- This will send a data recovery request to facebook. It may take a few minutes, depending upon the amount of data you requested.
- You will receive a notification that your file is ready to download when it is available.
- Tap on the notification and click on the download button.
- This will redirect you to a new window where you need to login.
- Enter your login details and tap on Log In.
- Once you done login your file will be automatically downloaded or tap on download button again to start downloading file.
- When downloading is finished, open the zip file and recover all your messages.
How to recover permanently deleted messages on Facebook on PC
The fastest way to recover the deleted data from facebook is to use a PC or laptop. Follow these steps to recover deleted facebook messages on computer.
- Launch any browser on your PC (Chrome, safari, Mozilla, Opera, etc.) and login to your facebook account.
- Click on downward arrow icon on top right corner of the window.
- Now tap on "Settings & Privacy" option and select "Settings".
- On the next page find "Your Facebook Information" option and select "Download your information".
- Now select options. File format as HTML, Media quality as Medium and date range as you want. You can also select custom date. I selected custom date for just showing you how it works.
- Scroll down a little bit, tap on "Deselect All" and select "Messages" only.
- Scroll down till the end and click on "Request a download".
- Your messages recovery request has been sent to facebook.
- Depending upon the size of your data it may take few minutes.
- You will get a notification that your information file is ready to download.
- Tap on the notification and click on download button.
- File is now downloaded.
- Sometimes it maybe ask to login to your facebook account. In that case, enter your login credentials and then download data.
- Zip file is now downloaded in your system. You need an extractor to see the files. Kindly download winrar software if you don't have any extractor.
- Double click on the zip file and extract all the data and deleted messages.
How to recover deleted data from friends on facebook
This method works when you have very few knowledge of using facebook and you have very trustworthy friends.
Follow these easy and simple instructions:
- Open messenger or facebook on your phone or login to facebook on your PC/Laptop.
- Search that friend whose chat you want to recover.
- Text him/her this message- "Hello [Name], Can you please send me the last chat in which we were discussing about [topic]. The chat was accidently deleted by my side. Send me the screenshots so that i retrieve the deleted messages. Thank You.
- Or just ask your friend to share the data with you by any other method. That's it.
Conclusion
So, do you learn to recover facebook messages that have been deleted?
If Yes, then CHEERS.
I suggest you to take a backup of your data when try to recover. You can also recover photos from facebook along with text and many other things. Go to facebook and try to recover any other stuff. Take a backup also.
If you found this informative then please share this information to others who really need it and do comment if you have any question.
FAQ's
How do I view images from messages that I deleted?
Download your data and open the zip file. In the messages there is an option of photos. Go to photos folder and find the images.
What should I do if I lose my phone and can't remember my Facebook password?
Use another device to try to ligin your account with "Forget password" option. Also change your password so that the other person could not be able to access your account. Use the method i told in this article and recover your data.
I found my old conversation but why some of the conversations are missing?
Please keep in mind, facebook only keeps your deleted data for the last 90 days. After 90 days the chances of getting older data is quite difficult.
How long does it take to process a copy of information to download?
It all depends upon the amount of data that you are recovering (i.e. messages, photos, stories, etc.). It takes atleast 5 minutes if data is very less.