How to recover messages in VK: instructions for completing the quest

How to view deleted messages in your interlocutor’s VK

The easiest and fastest option is to recover one deleted message. If you accidentally erased it, the system will notify you about this and offer to return it. Just click the appropriate button.

Please note that the notification provided will remain active until you refresh or close the page. Before closing the dialog box, you have a chance to recover the SMS. Do not forget that when you delete messages, they remain with the interlocutor.

How to return to a VK conversation

Go to an abandoned conversation, send any message and automatically become a member. Or click the three dots icon and select Return to VKontakte conversation. After joining the chat they will know that you cannot return without notification.

Important:
if the number of people in the chat is 250, it is impossible to join until space becomes free, but you will only learn about this from other participants. Or try to come back from time to time.

If you are expelled, you can get back at the invitation of a friend. There are no secret codes or tricks; if you are deleted, the conversation on VK is blocked until you are invited. When you try to send a text, there will be an access error.

Through an Android phone, kate mobile, from an iPhone, the procedure for returning is the same: go to the chat, click the dots icon, select the last item.

Support

How to read deleted messages on VK? Contact the social network support service. If we take into account the fact that when you delete SMS messages in this service, they are saved by your friend, then we can assume that they are saved in the database. Ask technical support for recovery. To do this, scroll down the page and click the button that allows you to contact employees, or follow the link - https://vk.com/support?act=new.

On the page that opens, select the question you are interested in.

You can also ask your question by indicating it in the top line.

Try to describe the problem informatively and briefly. A response from technical support will be received soon, which will be displayed as a notification in the questions category.

In some situations, employees may refuse to provide such information; such cases have been noted among users. Then you should give more arguments, explaining the problem in detail.

How to read a deleted message from a computer

Let's start with the simplest thing: if you accidentally deleted a message or did it on purpose, but immediately regretted it, then you have time before you refresh the page. After deleting a message, the message “Message deleted” appears on the screen. Restore".

Moreover, “restore” is represented by an active link. We click on it, and the message immediately appears in the place of correspondence where it was originally located.

If you deleted several messages, you will have to restore each one separately. But, as in the case of one message, this can only be done immediately after deletion. If you refresh the page, it will be impossible to restore the correspondence.

Please note that this method is not suitable for recovering messages from your phone. This is only possible in the full version of the site.

If you deleted the entire chat, and not individual messages, then there is no such option for recovery either from your computer or from your phone.

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Help from a friend

If you deleted some messages in your correspondence, then ask your interlocutor to forward them to you. How to do it:

1. Ask your interlocutor to go to messages from his profile and find correspondence with you.
2. Ask to highlight the messages you deleted. To select, just left-click on the desired message.
3. Ask for messages to be sent to you. After selection, you need to click the “Forward” button that appears and select the interlocutor, that is, you.

You can forward a maximum of 100 messages at a time. Messages are forwarded from the phone in the same way: click on the message you need and select “Forward”.

Or you can press your finger on the letter and hold it for a while - it will immediately be highlighted, and an “arrow” icon will appear on top. Click on it to forward the message.

Request an archive on VKontakte

How else can you restore your correspondence? Contact VKontakte technical support. The system stores all information about users, including messages (up to 15 million letters per profile). This data can be downloaded in one archive upon request.

How to view deleted messages in the VK archive? To do this, go to the appropriate support page and submit a request. When you submit your application, you will be sent a one-time code.

After processing the application, you will receive a link to the archive, which cannot be opened from any profile other than yours. The approximate time for downloading the archive is 3 hours.

If you wish, you can remove unnecessary checkboxes and order only downloading of messages. In general, you can get all the data on your profile (friends and subscriptions, gifts, information, photos, blacklist, etc.), payments and advertising within the network, authorization in your profile and calls to support.

Search in mail

If you have notifications for incoming messages enabled, you can find the message you need there. As a rule, the text is duplicated. True, lately messages like “Such and such a user sent you a message. Look what he wrote."

Previously, the text itself was shown. Now, if another person sends you a message with his thoughts, then the content can be read in the mail, and if the user forwards you some kind of entry, then the letter in the mail displays “Look what he wrote.”

To quickly find a letter in your mail, in the search bar, enter the name of the interlocutor with whom you want to view correspondence.

Via VKontakte API

This life hack will suit you if no more than a day has passed since the message was deleted. So here's how to read a message via the API:

• We go to the “Messenger” section and find the dialogue from which you need to restore the message.
• Right-click on the last message sent to this user, and in the functional menu that opens, click “Explore element”. In other browsers this may be called something else, but it's similar: look at the element's code, inspect the element.
• In the window that opens with the code, find the line “im-mess im_in _im_mess _im_mess_******” after the tag

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• Go to the restore page and scroll through it to the end. Find the “Example request” form. In the message_id line we insert the number that we learned from the code before.
• We decrease the written number until the value of the response line on the right in the form is equal to 1. Why is this? Remember that we took the id of the last message? If the deleted message was sent before it, then we decrease the number, and if after, then we increase it until the value of the response line is also equal to 1.
• When we have reached one in the response line, we update the dialog page. The deleted message will appear in the same place where it was originally.

For clarity, you can find a video with this method on YouTube.

Via browser extension

Install the Vkopt web browser add-on. You can download it from the official Google Chrome extension store. The application collects all your messages into one file. At any time, you can contact him and read the deleted message. How to do it:

1. Go to your VKontakte page.
2. Go to the "Messenger" section.
3. Find the "Actions" option. This is an additional feature that appears after installing the extension.
4. Inside the Actions option, find the Statistics section.
5. Set the necessary parameters, for example, how many messages and for what period you want to upload, and then click “Let's go.”

Within a few minutes, statistics on all your correspondence will be generated. The application displays it on the screen. The statistics show the names of the people with whom you corresponded, the total number of letters in each dialogue, the number of incoming and outgoing letters, the date of the last message, etc.

Please note: the message can only be read if the message was deleted after installing the add-on.

Via cache

Download and install the ChromeCacheView browser add-on from NirSoft. The extension is suitable for any browser. What to do after installing the add-on:

• Launch the application, press F9 and select "Select Cache Folder".
• In the window that appears, in the address line, specify the path to the cache folder on your computer. How to find her? Through a search on the computer itself.
• Below, under the address bar in the resolution, select the name of your browser (the one from which you accessed VK).
• Find the required file (correspondence) in the window that appears, left-click on it and press F6.

Ready. The cache data has been restored.

How to view deleted messages on VK via phone

In essence, restoring correspondence via phone occurs in the same way as on a computer when using a browser. Contact site technical support through the mobile application. State the essence of the issue by asking to see your message history.

The fastest option is to contact the interlocutor and ask him to forward the deleted dialogue, or in another way let him read it. The VKontakte program for smartphones also has an alert function that is triggered when you erase a specific message in a dialogue. Just click "restore".

Restoration without the use of special equipment.

VK has an official faq in which the issue of recovering deleted messages is raised. As the developers of the message say, it’s like the second volume of “Dead Souls”, if you burned them and deleted them, then it is no longer possible to restore them.

On the Internet you can meet people who claim that when they requested technical support, their messages were restored, which is a blatant lie. Three experiments were carried out from different accounts, we asked in different ways to restore a deleted dialogue - as a result, after 1-2 days of waiting, we received the same answer: This process is not reversible - the only way to ask the interlocutor to delete the dialogue, of course, if he too didn't delete it.

As a result , recovery through TP is a myth , unless of course you work for the FSB.

Using extensions

To simplify the procedure, you can resort to third-party programs. Install the VKopt extension by downloading it from the official website.

On the download page, specify the browser you are using, and after installation, restart it.

1. After launching a browser with the extension, go to the correspondence section. Please note that additional functions have appeared.
2. Click on the new menu and find the “Statistics” item. Next, select the desired settings and save the changes.
3. Finally, the system will provide you with a detailed report of all messages, including deleted ones. If you select a specific contact, you will immediately go to the conversation, regardless of whether you deleted it or not.

It is worth noting that the presented program functioned perfectly on the old version of VKontakte. To avoid possible problems, download the extension from the official website, which is supported by the developers and has the latest update for 2021.

Looking for a VK conversation by date

If a user needs to know how to search for messages by date in VK, he can use the following scheme:

• From your personal account, enter the “Messages” section.
• Find the desired conversation and enter it.
• On the top toolbar in the conversation window, click the “Search by Conversation” button. You can recognize it by its icon with a magnifying glass.

• Near the search bar, find the “Calendar” icon and click on it.
• Find the desired date in the calendar.
• The message feed will display all messages in the conversation dating back to the specified date.

To exit the date search mode, click on the “Reset filtering by date” sign, which is located directly under the calendar window. Alternatively, you can click the Cancel button.

Thus, in just a minute you can find any message. However, this only applies to correspondence that has not been deleted.

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#5 In the VKOpt service

This is an application that optimizes the operation of VK; it includes many cool functions that are not provided by official social developers. networks. For example, you can restore a conversation if you deleted a conversation. The service is built into the browser and works as an add-on. The developer is Google Chrome, so VKOpt is considered safe and reliable.

Download VKOpt only from the official website or in the Chrome store - this way you will get the original version instead of a malicious fake.

Answering the question of whether it is possible to read deleted VKontakte messages using VKOpt, we will answer “Yes,” but only if you regularly make backup copies of correspondence. Otherwise, the utility will not help you, because this option does not exist in it and never has.

How to make backups?

• Go to the dialogue window;
• Click on the three dots at the top of the field;
• Select the “Save correspondence” command;

• Decide on the format: Html or Txt.

• Click "OK"

• And here’s what the result itself looks like: the resulting document opens in a browser.

Please note that any third-party applications that you are likely to try to install and try may cause harm. You risk getting viruses, giving scammers access to your data, downloading useless software with a bunch of annoying ads, paying money (there are paid versions) for non-working software. We also do not recommend these methods because we ourselves have tested most popular applications - we assure you that none of them help you view deleted messages.

And now we want to summarize the material presented above:

1. On a computer, immediately after deletion, the texts are easy to view only before updating;
2. Contacting technical support is rarely effective;
3. The interlocutor will help only if it is convenient for you to contact him;
4. Notifications provide access to deleted incoming messages only if they are properly configured;
5. VKOpt will only be useful if you have backed up dialogs;
6. Other utilities don't work at all.

Our review has come to an end, we have shown working options that tell us how to see deleted messages in VK and pointed out all the pitfalls. We wish you good luck!

Storage system in VK

In fact, the fact that you delete a specific message does not mean that it disappears altogether. I once read that VK does not delete any correspondence; moreover, this applies to both Yandex, which stores all our letters, and Google. It’s just that when you press the “Delete” key on your computer, the message stops being displayed, but it is stored on VK servers, which makes it possible to restore it.

But first, I want to show you one screenshot, I really liked it. See what the administration says about this:

Do you understand? I spent half a day researching this issue, looking for easy ways, watching videos on YouTube, downloading and installing extensions, but nothing helped. The administration is right, and there is no trick here. They most likely have correspondence that has been deleted for a long time, but they will not provide access to it.

But we are not satisfied with this answer, so we will look for working ways to restore the message history.

Searching for VK messages using the address bar

Finding the messages you need using the address bar is very difficult. But this method is even suitable for viewing deleted conversations from the moment you register your account. So, if you have had at least one conversation from your page, then:

• Copy the link //vk.com/im?sel=c1 into the address bar
• If there were more conversations, sequentially change the last digit in the link //vk.com/im?sel=c2, //vk.com/im?sel=c and so on until the desired conversation is found.
• As soon as all the account conversations are open, the social network will take you to the main page of the “Messages” section. Her address looks like this: //vk.com/im.

There is another way, the so-called search through a combined address:

• In the address bar of your Internet browser you need to enter the following address //vk.com/im?peers=c2_c3_c4_c5_c6_c7_c8_c9_c10&sel=c1.
• This will open a navigation menu of the found conversations (first through tenth).
• If there are more than ten profile conversations, their numbering should be continued with digital blocks c11_c12_c13_c14_c15...
• If necessary, the search can be started not from the first, but from the last conversations. Then they are listed in the address bar in reverse order. However, at the end it is necessary to mention the first conversation with 1.

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IMPORTANT! Even if you have had a huge number of conversations from your profile, you should not open too many tabs at once.