How to read deleted whatsapp messages and chats

Facebooks popular messaging app whatsapp added a new feature some time back that permits users to delete messages sent from both chats within one hour. This feature is helpful for editing messages maybe because you made a spelling error, or you sent the right message to the wrong person.  Messages can be deleted from both group chats and individual chats. When the message is deleted, the other chat only see’s ” this message was deleted” and can be really annoying. Nevertheless, it is possible to read deleted messages on android, ios, and windows. Below are other ways which you can read deleted messages.

1. Read deleted WhatsApp messages and chats using chat Backup

you can recover an accidentally deleted message using the whatsapp chat backup which occurs every night at 2 am by default settings. However the frequency can be changed to daily,weekly,or monthly.

Nevertheless it is recommended for daily backup so that you can restore chats before the next back up that occurs by default.

To restore deleted messages and chats in whatsapp, follow the procedure below.

Delete your current whatsapp. you can do this by going to the main apps screen, hold that the whatsapp icon and click on uninstall.

 If you are using android, go to Google play store and download whatsapp form there.

Install it and accept the terms and conditions.

Insert your mobile number and your country code.

After confirmation,  an option to restore chats from a backup will be presented to you.

To restore whatsapp chats, click on the restore option.

You can now access chats which were deleted.

     2. Other apps

You can use other apps to read deleted whatsapp messages. Many apps are available on online stores which allow you to recover whatsapp messages which has been deleted by the sender.

However, its still a high security risk giving access to your smart phones notification to other apps.

you can download one here

Nevertheless, this app has limitations such as

-you can only recover messages from chats you have interacted with

-once your smart phone is restarted, notification log is cleared. Therefore, it will be impossible to recover the messages.

   3. notification log.

1. go to your home screen
2.  hold your finger on a free area
3. tap widgets. find settings widget.

1. hold your finger on the settings widget and place it on the home screen.

1. open the settings. a list of options will appear
2. select notification log

Now when you tap on that widget, you will see past notifications. You will be able to find the deleted whataspp message there.

    4.

you can download notification history app from Google play store.

However, you should check your message for errors before sending to avoid problems.
sometimes, even if you delete the message, it might not be deleted on the other persons phone.
the causes could include
the person not having the version which supports the feature. You never know. so prevention is better than cure. well we are all bound to make mistakes.

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