How to How to View Deleted Messages on Facebook

You mistakenly deleted a message on Facebook and now you think since you’ve deleted them, they are gone and you cannot get them back? This article will guide you on how you can recover deleted Facebook messages. 

Email Notifications: If Facebook notification email is activated on your Facebook account and you receive message notifications in your email account, it is possible that you still have a copy of the deleted message. To check your notification settings to see if you have them set to send you message notifications.

Log in to your Facebook account, then to open your settings, Click on the downward-facing triangle on the top right corner of your page. This opens a drop-down menu with options like “Create Page”, “Activity Log”, “Log Out”, and “Help”. Click on “Settings” in this drop-down.

Click on the “Notifications” tab on the left side of the “Settings” window. Click on “Edit” next to your “Email” notifications settings. The image below shows your Facebook email notification status 

Asides the email notification settings there are other ways you can retrieve deleted Facebook messages but Keep in mind it works only if you click the little 'x' button in the corner to conceal the message. If you click the "Erase Discussion" link, your Facebook messages are gone permanently and even a court order will not make Facebook retrieve it for you.

On some web browsers, if by deleting a message from your inbox, you only tapped the “x” next to the message on the desktop, as we stated earlier, you didn’t delete it. You archived it. From the More dropdown menu in your Messenger inbox, tap Archived. Here, you’ll see all the messages you’ve archived. Hopefully, you’ll find your message here. (You can search the contact’s name in the search bar, and your full conversation history should pop up.) If the message isn’t here, you did delete it. And unfortunately, it is gone but logically it is only from your inbox. If the other party hasn’t deleted it, they still have it on their phone. That means, if you’re still on good terms with that person, you could ask them to re-send the information or take a screenshot of their conversation with you. 

And if you are not on speaking terms with that contact, you can follow this Step by step guide on how to View Deleted Messages on Facebook.

•   Open the Web edition of Facebook on your Mac or PC.

•   On the left corner, click the Messages icon, and a drop-down menu will appear. Click "See All" option at the bottom of the drop-down.

•  In the right-hand pane, besides "Inbox" and "Others," locate "More." Click it, and click "Archive" in the menu that appears.

Here, you will see those messages that you believed were gone permanently.

This approach works perfectly because luckily the "x" button clicked is, in fact, an Archive button rather of an Erase button. So when you click the "x" button, your message gets archived and eliminated from your inbox. When you access your Archive, all the messages will appear once again. Therefore, with this in mind next time you wish to remove the message, click the "x" button rather of the "erase discussion" link unless you want it gone permanently.