How To View Archived Messages on Facebook and Facebook Messenger Apps 2022 🍓

An archive is a historical document or record providing information about a place, institution or group of people.

When you move a message to the ‘archive’ folder, it hides such a message from your ‘inbox’ folder. An archived message will reappear in your inbox when you start another conversation.

Archived Messages On Messenger – How to See Archived Messages On Facebook Messenger

One of the reasons many people love Facebook is that one can organize his/her main list of conversations by archiving messages, which means saving and put them away in a different folder.

The archived messages on Facebook are not deleted but ready to be reviewed anytime one wants, which is especially helpful if one wants to save the messages but doesn’t need to text him/her at the moment.

However, some users complain that they don’t know where to find and see the archived messages on Facebook Messenger.

If you are experiencing the same thing, fortunately, you can use the right set of tools and methods to retrieve your messages. That is why this article is especially for you! Even if you accidentally delete the messages, there is a way to recover them. Superb, right?

How to Access Archived Messages On Messenger for Desktop:

If you’re using Facebook for desktop including Messenger.com and Facebook.com, it’s very easy to access archived messages. Read on to find out the quick and easy steps involved.

If you want to open your archived messages on Facebook, simply visit https://www.facebook.com/messages/archived/ to open the archived messages page directly.

Alternatively, you can manually find the archived messages so that next time you can open them directly. This method is also quick and easy to use.

Follow the steps below to open your archived messages, manually. This is for Facebook.com users

Go to Facebook.com and open Messages at the top of the page, on the menu bar, next to your profile name.
A drop-down menu appears and you select See All in Messenger at the bottom.
On the top left of the page, there is the Settings button with the gear icon. Click it and select Archived Threads.
Then you can see all your archived messages!

If you are using the Facebook Messenger app for iPhone/Android. Follow these easy steps below to see your Archived Messages on Messenger App for iPhone/Android.

Simply view the archived message by searching for a chat or friend’s name, but users are unable to view a list of archived messages. If you do need to view the list, use the website.

So, how to view a list of archived messages on the Messenger app?

Open Facebook Messenger, log in and tap the Home button on the bottom left of the screen.
Tap the search bar on the top of the screen, and type in the name of the archived messages’ recipient. If you’re looking for a group chat, enter any member’s name to search for it.
Then the archived chats will appear. Tap and see it.

I believe if you followed all the methods mentioned in this post, you must have found it very easy to access your archived messages on Facebook or the Facebook messenger app on iPhones and all androids. Let us know what you think about this article?