Home » Instagram » How To Recover Deleted Instagram Messages

How To Recover Deleted Instagram Messages

✎ Key Points:

» You can view deleted Instagram chats by accessing the other person’s chat inbox where the messages may still be visible, especially in group chats with multiple accounts.
» You can use the Instagram backup data download to retrieve deleted messages, as the platform lacks a built-in backup and restore system for direct messages.

How To Recover Deleted Instagram Messages:

You can try some methods to recover the deleted chats on Instagram:

1. Ask the person

If you just deleted your messages or a whole chat and wondering about the files that he had sent you but you cannot see them as you have removed the messages mistakenly then you can request the person to send you those files once again through Instagram DM on your chat or in some cases you can ask the screenshot to see the messages you want back. 

Instagram would not delete the chat from the person’s inbox you deleted from yours.

ask from Person

Now request him to send the deleted messages once again so that you can view the messages from your account when those are lost or use his phone to see the chats.

P.S. Most probably the person will send you the important files over your DM that you lost by deleting the whole chat, if you don’t get any reply then there is no reason to get the chat back for your purpose. Otherwise, you can try other methods to recover the deleted chats.

2. Instagram DATA Download

If you just deleted some messages from Instagram DM or a chat from your Instagram account then you can see all of these deleted messages just from the Instagram data option that is available on your desktop settings on Instagram.

Now, you have to perform this from the desktop version by going to instagram.com.

🔴 Steps To Follow:

Step 1: First of all, you have to go to Instagram.com to get the download option. You have to proceed from a laptop or PC, now just log in with your Instagram account at first. 

Step 2: Once you are logged in with the Instagram account on your desktop just find the option ‘Edit Profile‘ and just click on it and the same will open a list of a feature on your Instagram.

edit IG pranab

Step 3: Now from the list, you have to take on the ‘Privacy and Security‘ option that you will find by crawling to the bottom and this will open several options where you have to click on the ‘Request Download‘ button under the Download Data section.

Download Instagram data

Step 4: Now once you click on the ‘Request Download‘ option this will ask to provide your email ID and password for your Instagram to verify that download and once you provide it with all of the details including the verification ones, Instagram will take a few hours to send your data over the email.

Step 5: Once the data process is ready by Instagram, they will email you the link for your Instagram data download, you just have to click on the link to download the data on your desktop where you can open that ZIP file.

Step 6: Now open the ZIP file on your desktop and you will see a file named messages.json, you have to open it through Notepad++ where you can see all of the deleted chats or messages through the data Instagram provided you.

Why Do The Deleted Instagram messages keep coming back?

In this method, you get all of the deleted staff including the Instagram DM, links, and other people’s chats as well.

The best advantage you get through this method is getting a backup of your whole Instagram profile that you can use in the future if you need any data to view.

Share This Article:

Pranab Sen is founder and author of Techniquehow.com. He is a full-time blogger, everything that gets published is from Pranab's hand. He likes to be a 'social media geek' since 2011 to understand the problems of readers more deeply and giving the solution through his writing.

Leave a Comment

error: Content is protected !!