It is quite possible to recover messages deleted by mistake on the application Messenger from an iPhone device. However, by certain criteria, it is not guaranteed that you can find an accidentally deleted conversation from your iPhone, although in 90% of cases it will be possible. Be aware that the messages exchanged on the social network Messenger will be stored online on the official server of Facebook and not on your iPhone device. Do not panic, because you will see that it is then possible to access theHISTORY of these conversations Messenger by downloading them directly from the server Facebook. Thus, you will find in this article the different steps to follow in order to recover messages Messenger unintentionally deleted on your device iOS. Good reading!
An alternative to deleting Messenger conversations: archiving
And yes, you don't always have todelete your messages exchanged on the application Messenger to make room on your social network: you can archive some of your conversations, and will have access to them at any time if necessary. Even if you have deleted the conversations from your iPhone device, we advise you, for reasons of fluidity, to connect to a computer to recover your conversations. Messenger. In any case, you will be able to have access to the conversations folder Messenger deleted from your iPhone if once it is downloaded it is also dropped on a online storage space such as iCloud ou dropbox for example.
Here are the steps to follow to archive conversations Messenger on your iPhone:
- On your iPhone, open the app Messenger
- Long press the conversation you want to archive
- Then press Archives in the drop-down menu that appears on your iPhone screen
Of course, you will again be able to access all of your conversations. Messenger archived whenever you want, by going directly to the app Messenger and typing the name of the person with whom you archived conversations in the search bar.
All conversations Messenger with that person will then appear on your iPhone screen, whether they are individual, group or archived conversations. All you have to do then is open the archived conversation that interests you to access all the messages it contains.
Recover Deleted Messenger Messages on iPhone
If you have deleted specific messages that are really important, then you will have the option of recovering them. To do this, here are the steps to follow:
- From your computer (Mac or PC), log into your account Facebook
- Scroll down the menu by the arrow at the top right corner of your computer screen
- Press Settings
- Press Log out
- Press Your Facebook information
- Press Download your information
- Search Message in the list of data types that appears on your computer screen
- Press Messages exchanged with other people on Messenger
- Check all the items you want to recover (photos, videos, comments, likes, reactions, stories, etc.) or simply the messages if this is the only item that interests you
- Set the period to which the messages deleted by mistake correspond to Messenger
- Define a file format for retrieving your messages, namely HTML ou JSON
- Press Create a file
- Wait a few minutes for the items to download
Now it's up to you to find the messages that interest you. You can now download this file to a online storage space such as iCloud ou dropbox for example, in order to access it from your iPhone. You can also use Airdrop if you are using a Macbook device.
