It's always frustrating to enter a Whatsapp conversation only to find that entire sections of the discussion have beendeleted by your friends. But don't worry: if this happens to you, there's a solution that makes it easy to see the messages your friends have deleted, without having to install any additional applications. We'll tell you how.
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The method on Android
If you are using an Android smartphone, the method is as follows: go to the 'settings' section of your smartphone, then look for the 'Notification history' heading, which you should activate. Thanks to this small manipulation, a message, even if deleted, will continue to appear in your notification history. Simple, but effective.
The method on the iPhone
While this tip is unfortunately not applicable to the iPhone, there is also a solution for consulting deleted Whatsapp messages on Apple smartphones. To do this, you need to uninstall the Whatsapp application, then reinstall it from the App Store. Once you are logged in again, the app will offer you the option to restore chats from a previous saved version.
All you have to do is confirm the complete restoration of the discussions, in which all messages will appear, even those deleted by your friends. And no one can hide anything from you.
How to delete a message
If, on the other hand, you are that person who wrote in the wrong thread or realised that their last message in the family group was perhaps a little too crude, the procedure is simple.
To delete one of your messages, simply long-click on it, then a scrolling menu will appear, at the end of which you should see the 'Delete' option. Whatsapp will even ask you to tick off all the messages you want to delete, and then you just have to validate. How convenient!
This article has been translated from Gentside FR.
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