How to get back your deleted message in Facebook

In Facebook, now you can also recover your deleted messages or a group of messages from your inbox which can be your recieved or sent messages or simply updates from the different pages that you have joined. It’s not a trick or anything like it, rather it’s just a feature added by Facebook without any notification or update in their official blog.

To recover a deleted message, find the link of undo in a yellow box below the button ofย  “+ Compose”. Check out the screen Shot below.

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This link will appear in your inbox whenever you delete one or more of messages that might be received or sent messages. You can also undo the deleted updates from the pages. This feature helps to clean inbox faster as you don’t have to confirm “are you sure want to delete this message” every time, but you still don’t have an option of recovering an old deleted message that you have deleted a long while ago. However to read an old message that is no more in your inbox, you can check your e-mails as Facebook always send you an e-mail notification in your mailbox whenever you recieves a new message.

65 Comments

Hollie barnes August 4, 2010

I would like all my sent and received messages back because I have been hacked and they have chatted to very important people that I would like to see.

Sauravjit August 4, 2010

Well in that case check your e-mail which’s related to your facebook account as we get an e-mail every time when we send or receive a message. ๐Ÿ™‚

hollie August 26, 2010

there was none on my email because they knew that as well

gurjeet September 7, 2010

hey i can only see the messages i have recieved not the message i have sent in my e-mail account

Sauravjit October 11, 2010

sent msgs will be in receiver’s e-mail account.

ahmed March 20, 2012

did u got your deleted mail from facebook???

maaz April 24, 2012

http://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=173289796060388

go to this you will get clear idea……

avantika February 27, 2013

I have deleted some important messages early in Facebook. i want to recover that messages now. so how can i recover those messages again please reply me

John Lyndon Candelario August 15, 2010

I accidentally deleted all my sent messages and then worst of it, when I look back at my messages the very important message of mine was also deleted ! when I look back again at my sent messages the undo button wasnt able to appear that cause the lost of my VERY IMPORTANT MESSAGES ! …. How can I retrieve it ? Hoping for your urgent response AS SOON AS POSSIBLE !

Sauravjit August 16, 2010

Check your e-mail account which’s attached to your fb account. ๐Ÿ™‚

colin September 15, 2012

what do I do if i turned off ’email notifications’? Is there any way to get them back respectively?

Sabrina October 6, 2013

“How are you tonight, I need you’re help in retrieving my deleted messages on my f.b. please I need them its really important that I get them back asap.

Mimi August 19, 2010

I don’t have that “compose” button on my page, what can I do?

Sauravjit August 19, 2010

Find “New Message” button on your page….That must be on top right hand side of your page.

bren December 11, 2011

i looked up everything to get my old messages back, nothing seems to help, what do i do when i click “new message”?

hollie August 26, 2010

when you delete a message and yu want it back you press the undo button how do you undo all the messages that you have deleted?

Sauravjit September 6, 2010

That’s not possible. ๐Ÿ™

miz October 11, 2010

hey i deleted a message by accident AND i do not get notification emails about when i receive messages. so is there any way possible to retrieve back this message? can i retrieve previous threads if the person replies the deleted message?

Sauravjit October 11, 2010

well no it’s not possible but still u can try….Tell the other person to reply the same thread.

matt November 3, 2010

i wanna know straight to the point how to get back deleted messages that arnt in my emal too. no go here and go there someone just stop beating around the bush and tell me

joe crawford April 17, 2011

how do i get old fb msges back im to my girlfriends fb an whant her old msgs of her ex cuz im bored how do i get em back? ๐Ÿ™

Muqeem May 18, 2011

hey i want to retrieve back messages deleted one month ago should i recover messages?

kayla June 17, 2011

hi, i was wondering if there was any way to recover messages deleted on facebook that was from about a year ago, and i do not hold any e-mail information therefore i can not check my e-mail. please let me know if there is any way i can still retrieve these old messages. thank you very much:)

xena July 7, 2011

i want to get all of my deleted messages since i had a fb but i dont know how and i like am trying to locate this person…

Sauravjit July 8, 2011

Read the post, that’s all what you can do.

Flyboy July 27, 2011

if I delete an archived message, can the person I sent the message to still reply back to me?

Cassie October 25, 2011

On my Facebook i have the New message with a plus and since fb has modified i can’t figure out how to retrieve my messages.. can you help me?

sauravjit October 25, 2011

You can see your messages as a conversation now..

gulalai November 18, 2011

how to get back deleted comment on friend’s photo on facebook???

mary January 8, 2012

My son passed away on May4, 2010 and I was too distraught at the time to even get on fb. Many friends sent condolenses via fb and I would now like to see those messages, is there a way I can retrieve them to view them?

sauravjit January 8, 2012

Sorry for your loss. You can check those messages in your fb inbox. Or you can check them in your E-Mail inbox attached to your fb.

Justin Blevins January 11, 2012

I accidental deleted some of my very important messages from around August 2011. Is there a way that I can get them back? I just now set up my facebook email account. Please help me!! Thanks.

marisa January 30, 2012

i dont see any yellow “undo” box. i am on my ipad trying to retrieve my old Facebook messages. can i only do this from a computer?

ania February 13, 2012

hi there .. ii have got a question this is very important to me ..i woudl like to go back and see all my profile history things i have sent for example pictures etc on fb .. I do not know if anybody previously hada a same issue like me but i will be gtatefull for a help .

Sarah April 2, 2012

I want to ‘reply all’ to a conversation, but I previously “left the conversation.” Is there any way to join the conversation again?

Ekpu Ehimen Paul April 26, 2012

I find it difficult to chat with my friends on fb mobile.I used samsung s5350 252 wave mobile

Redgie May 11, 2012

If you have a nokia e73 or e75 i think, i dont remember but i know its e7 something? The old black thick one its plastic not metal like the newer version. Anyway it has to be that phone, if you have that phone lying around just download the app for fb. When you log in it brings up old messages that can date back to 2 years ago maybe even 3 but you gotta delete some to go further back in time.

Tom Shmedes May 25, 2012

What phone is this?

And does it actually work?

Cheers,

Tom

emma walbridge May 12, 2012

i need to get back some delted messages i stupidly delted them after a argument but now i need them back for a incident report about someone threataning to kill me and i really need them back they dont come through my email so theres got to be another way they cant just be gone forever

jack August 18, 2012

there,s any way else plsssssssss because i remove it and i dont know how to restore them

Arti Dey August 22, 2012

I want to see my deleated message/conversasion

nappinnai September 2, 2012

i deleted the message my frnd who sents to me so pls pls can u say how to recover my messages

Tyaseaia October 3, 2012

Sooo…uu can’t get messages back if they have been deleted within a week

Mimi March 7, 2013

How can I get messages back if they have been deleted within a week.
I have deleted them before 2 days.

Thanks!

faizan October 28, 2012

how to recover my deleted msgs.. can u pls help me outta this guys

Mr Jay November 9, 2012

Actually its easy to get all your historical infor from fb.
Using a PC or laptop:

Go to account settings > General.
Under your profile infor, there is a link which says
“Download a copy of your fb data”
As simple as that every thing will be there.
See ya!

Sneha July 27, 2013

I dont know whether it works or not but Im trying a lot to get back My messages wil it really works how to get back the deleted mmsgs

Suzanna Gentle November 22, 2015

no it won’t work. try it and your deleted messages will NOT be there.

Suzanna Gentle November 22, 2015

Idiot as above. This CANNOT retrieve deleted messages. Only archived.

sandeep kumar November 29, 2012

Hi I have delete my msg 30 days ago and i want it back is there any feature so i can get it back becoz it urgent for me.,.

nitish verma December 16, 2012

i wana get back my old fb msgs
i have make facebook id on my mobile no
will u plz help me

cloudi December 23, 2012

i accidentely deleted a conversation with a close friend of mine yesterday via smartphone. i already checked on my pc . but there isnt any “undo deleted msg button “. is there any possibility to recover it ? please help . and merry xmas ๐Ÿ˜€

emma lopez January 11, 2013

I need all to get back the messages that has been deleted

jagannath dhumal January 16, 2013

I would like all my sent and received messages back because I have been hacked and they have chatted to very important people that I would like to see.

Dayane January 24, 2013

I suggest we send messages to call Mark Zuckerberg to create something that he can recover messages and postings excluded. Furthermore, we create campaigns on social networks!

Sen February 12, 2013

i accidentally deleted a conversation with a close friend of mine today. . is there any possibility to recover it ? Please help me in this regard

prem February 28, 2013

my all message are deleted from inbox i need to get there is some importent p

Divyashree April 20, 2013

The simplest way is to ask the person you have sent an inbox message to, on Facebook to copy paste it to you.. This is possible, provided the other person hasn’t deleted the messages! Hope this helps ๐Ÿ™‚

Regards,
Divyashree Mangalorkar

juliette thijs April 28, 2013

how do I get back my deleted conversations while I can not undo, help !!!!!!!

rose May 20, 2013

would love to get back my deleted message over the last year as my friend died and i would love to read back over our conversations

Ajay raaz June 5, 2013

I deleted conversation from my feature phone facebook app can i retrive those message on computer

rehana September 9, 2013

Hi, i accidentally deleted a message off facebook and now i want it back, how can i do this? there must be a way to get it back, please help!

nazim October 31, 2013

Some just deleted ma whole conversation…..how can i recover it plz…help me

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Suzanna Gentle November 22, 2015

you are a moron! You CANNOT get back deleted messages even if god himself wanted it. You can only retrieve archived messages. Also none of the above makes any sense at all gramatically. Idiot! There is no way to get back deleted messages. How come every way given to get them back is the same and always by an Indian blogger or supposed tech savvy person? You can’t get them.