There was lately buzz around people saying that the messanger messages disappeared from their chat, without being unsent.
Quick Fix: If your messanger messages disappeared automatically, deleting the application and re-installing it can help you fix it quickly. This has been the most common fix that worked so far.
If you also did found such weired things going with your messaneger chatbox, you’re not alone. A lot of people have been facing this issue.
Today, in this post, I am going to discuss why your messanger messages disappered from the chat and how you can fix it.
Why your facebook messanger messages disappeared?
There have been a lot of reasons buzzing around people when they notice such issues in their messanger chatbox.
A few set of people were believing that it is possible that your messanger messages has been disappeared because your facebook account is being hacked.
While other people were saying it as a glitch.
Howeve, when we deep dive to the issue, we’ve found a lot of logical reasons why this may happen to you.
You’re in secret conversation with someone
There has been a new feature in facebook messanger that allows you to do secret conversation with someone.
In this feature, a person can decide to automaticlly unsent or delete the messages they sent to you. However, whenever you or the person you’re chatting with enables this feature, you’ll be notified.
So, in case, you facebook messanger conversation has been disappeared, make sure you’re not in secret conversation.
If you’re in secret conversation mode, follow the steps below to get out of it:
- Open the chat of the person you’re chatting with.
- On the top right corner, you’ll see an “i” icon. Click on it.
- Scroll down and delete the chat.
This way you can come out of scrcet conversation mode. Your future messages will no longer disappear automatically.
Enabled disappearing messages
Disappearing messages has been a great way to enhance the conversation security and privacy for users.
Disappearing messages in facebook messanger allows a person to set a timer for how long the chat will be available in the chat box. Once the time is being completed, the messages will automatically get deleted.
So, if you too facing any issues with deleting or disappearing messages in facebook messanger, make sure you or the person you’re chatting with hasn’t enabled disappearing messages.
To disable disappearing messages in facebook messanger, follow the steps below:
- Go to the messanger chat and open the chat.
- Tap the profile picture of the person.
- Scroll down, and you’ll see an option called “Disappearing Messages”.
- Turn OFF
That’s how you disable vanish mode or disappearing mode in facebook messanger.
It maybe a bug
There have been a lot of people saying that neither they were in secret conversation mode, nor they enabled disappearing messages or vanish mode in messanger, however, still their messages got disappeared.
The only reason could be that it’s just weired glitch that’s creating this issue.
Make sure you’e the most updated version of facebook messanger and not using the old, outdated versions.
Alternate way to fix this error is delete and re-install the facebook app, then re-login to the app.
You archived the chat by mistake
Facebook messanger allows you to archive chats, images, videos, etc. that you don’t want them to appear in the chat but you don’t want to delete them either.
Such things gets saved in a new archived folder from where you can access those chats and medias you’ve archived.
If your messages are being disappeared, chances are those chats may have moved to the archive.
To see you archived chat, follow the steps below:
- Open the messanger app and go to your profile section.
- Select “Archived Chats” from the profile section. This will show all your chats that has been archived.
- Select “Unarchive”
You’re all set. Your messages has been restored.
Facebook is down
Being such a big company in the world, it’s very rare that facebook server can go down or slow. However, it’s a technology and there is a possibility.
In such cases, you don’t have any options and all you can do is wait for certain period of time to get this fixed.
How to recover disappearing messages on messenger?
Recovering disappearing messages does sounds impossible, however, there is still a chance to get disappeared messages back.
The first method is pretty simple and easy, which is downloading the chat or checking older mesanger notifcation on email.
Another mehod you may try is checking if the messages got archived. If you still have your messages in arhived folder, you can still restore it.
How to disable disppearing mode in messanger?
Disappearing mode allows you to automatically delete the chat conversation after a certain period of time.
Once the time is being completed, your chats gets automatically deleted, doesn’t matter if you’ve seen them or not.
While, this is one of the best features of messanger and other social media apps, however, people sometime forgets to disable it. They ultimateyl lost the whole chat.
Here’s how you can disbale disappearing mode in messanger:
- Go to the messanger chat and open the chat.
- Tap the profile picture of the person.
- Scroll down, and you’ll see an option called “Disappearing Messages”.
- Turn OFF
Conclusion
In this post, we learnd why has your messanger messages disappeared from the chat and various ways to fix it.
In conclusion, make sure:
- You’re not in secert conversation mode of messanger.
- Always make sure to disable disappearing messages mode in messanger.
- Delete and re-install the app from playstore or appstore.
- Make sure you’ve not archived the chat.
These fixes must solve the issue.
