WhatsApp has become one of the most popular messaging apps worldwide, enabling people to connect and communicate easily.
However, we have all experienced moments where we unintentionally deleted important WhatsApp messages and regretted it later.
Fortunately, there are various techniques to recover those deleted messages and retrieve the data you thought you had permanently lost.
In this blog post, we’ll go through different methods and techniques for getting back lost WhatsApp messages.
Let’s dive in and discover the secrets to seeing deleted messages on WhatsApp.
How to see deleted messages on WhatsApp without any app on Android
You may already be aware that there are no built-in features in WhatsApp that allow you to view deleted messages.
However, if you are running Android 11 or a later version of Android, you can view WhatsApp deleted messages without the use of a third-party app.
This feature of Android is known as Notification History. Here you can easily see details of WhatsApp notifications as well as other notifications. You will also be able to see if a recipient deletes a WhatsApp message.
Let’s see how you can enable the notification history option on Android 11 or later:
- Open the “Settings” app on your Android device.
- Tap on the “Notifications”.
- Now choose “Notification History”.
- Enable the toggle button before the “Use notification history” option.
On your Android device, you will be able to see every notification that has ever been sent in the past 24 hours.
How to see deleted messages on WhatsApp Android using third-party apps
There are many third-party apps available that allow you to recover deleted WhatsApp messages. That you can use it from Google Play Store.
But before using any third-party application you must keep some things in mind like what permissions the app is asking for, how popular the app is and whether it is being downloaded from a trusted source.
So before using any third-party application, you must check its reviews and requirements.
There are many third-party applications available on the internet to recover deleted WhatsApp messages. Among them, you can use a get-deleted messages app. Learn how to use it:
- Install the Get Deleted Messages app from Google Play Store.
- After opening the app, grant the necessary permissions.
- Then whenever you want to see your WhatsApp deleted messages, you can simply open this app and check.
- One thing you must keep in mind is that you have to grant permission to run this app in the background to work properly. You can stop it anytime.
How to See Deleted Messages on WhatsApp Web
Like the Android application, WhatsApp Web does not provide any direct features from where you can recover your deleted WhatsApp messages.
For this, you need to use a third-party extension on your web browser. You can use WA web plus Chrome extension to recover deleted messages on WhatsApp web. Learn how to use:
- First, go to the Chrome Web Store from your Internet web browser.
- Search WA web plus and install the extension.
- Then access WhatsApp web from your browser and log in.
- Then access the extension by clicking on the extension option at the top right corner of the URL bar.
- Go to the settings page and enable the restore deleted messages option.
Final word
If you accidentally delete your WhatsApp messages, you can easily recover them using the notification history features of Android 11 or later.
But if you are not using Android 11 or later then there are many popular third-party applications on the internet that claim to recover deleted messages on WhatsApp.
So you can check the trust and reviews of all those apps before using them. However, you must remember that you will protect your privacy.
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