How to Recover Deleted Facebook Messenger Messages on Android

PART 1. How to Restore Messenger Messages on Android Directly

Facebook Messenger keeps another copy of the same chat messages in your phone memory. Therefore, the deleted messages you thought were gone, actually still exist on your phone. So it is possible to recover deleted Messenger messages within the following simple steps.

• Step 1. Download and install any file manager app for your Android. Here we use ES File Explorer.
• Step 2. Open ES File Explorer app on your Android phone like Samsung Galaxy S10, and then head to Storage/SD card > Android > data.
• Step 3. Scroll down and find the folder named com.facebook.orca. Under this folder, go to Cache > fb_temp. All Facebook Messenger backups are automatically saved in this folder. You can recover conversation with whichever one of them.

PART 2: Recover Deleted Facebook Messenger Messages on Android from PC

There is a unique Facebook Messenger feature which usually stores a copy of your Messenger messages on your Android internal/external storage. Before we start, please ensure that you don’t delete the cache folder on your Android phone.

• Step 1.Connect your Android phone to PC via USB cable, move to “Internal storage” or SD card, select “Android” folder.
• Step 2. Open the subfolder named “Data” under the “Android” folder, then find and go to com.facebook.orca > Cache > fb-temp folder.
• Step 3. Inside the fb-temp folder, you will get your deleted Messenger messages with backups.
• Step 4. Then you can begin retrieving deleted Android Facebook messages from your computer.

PART 3: Recover Deleted Messages on Facebook Messenger from Archive Messages

Like Instagram, Facebook has an Archive feature as well. With this feature, you can hide specific conversations from the chatting list without actually deleting them. Hence, if a conversation has been moved to the Archive Threads, it still can be recoverable. However, you should remember that to restore Android Facebook Messenger messages from archived messages, the premise is that you need to ensure you have archived Facebook messages before.

Let’s first figure out how to view archived messages on Facebook:

• Step 1. Log in your Facebook account, press “Messages” to see a screen which shows the list of your contacts.
• Step 2. Find “search messages”, type the contacts’ names you want to unarchive and click the names.
• Step 3. Go to “Actions” and choose “Unarchive” to get the messages to your Facebook Messenger back.

Tips: If you don’t know how to archive the Messenger messages, you can follow these steps below.

• Step 1. Go to your Messenger, open your conversation list, choose the contacts you want to archive and give them a long press.
• Step 2. Select “Archive” when a new windows comes out.

PART 4: Use Android Facebook Messenger Recovery Tools

If you haven’t found your Facebook messages with the methods mentioned above, don’t give up and lose hope. We suggest you you trying third-party tools that provide you with the most efficient way to recover deleted messages on Facebook Messenger.

The first tool we recommend is GT Messenger Recovery. Here is how to use it:

• Step 1. Install GT Messenger Recovery for Android through Google Play. It will remind you to root your Android device first if you have not done so.
• Step 2. Start checking Messenger installation.
• Step 3. Choose “Scan Deleted Chats” and after scanning select messages you need to finish the recovery.