Hello dear readers of seoslim.ru! The social network Vkontakte stores user correspondence for years. However, not a single participant in this network is immune from accidental or technical deletion.
It’s one thing when they are not important and you can say goodbye to them once and for all.
A completely different situation arises when an important letter has been deleted. Without knowing the intricacies of restoring correspondence, it is problematic to achieve any result.
Therefore, the article will discuss 7 ways to return lost messages using VK itself and third-party methods.
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.
Deleting correspondence from your own and someone else’s PC once and for all.
The only reliable way to delete messages both from your account and from the account of the person you corresponded with is to delete your own page from VKontakte. It is recommended that you first perform the steps described in the previous method.
Alternative ways to delete correspondence from someone else's account.
There are two more ways to delete message history from your interlocutor’s account.
The first is that you need to ask the interlocutor to delete the correspondence on their own.
The 2nd (works every other time) is that you must select each of the messages that was sent to you and mark it as SPAM. From personal experience I can say that this trick works about 60% of the time.
How to do it?
Very simple:
- Go to the chat, mark the messages that the interlocutor sent you.
- Click on the “ This is spam ” button (appears only after at least one message has been flagged).
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 deleted VK messages that the interlocutor deleted?
You can joke with your interlocutor and send him an empty message. How to do this, read the article at this link .
So, you deleted a message, but you did it by accident and you need to read it, or other situations have arisen when you need to read deleted messages. Let's look at all the ways to recover deleted VK emails:
Recovering one message
Click “Restore”
If you were corresponding with a user, and you needed to delete one letter, and then urgently needed to read it, then just click on the active link “Restore” . This method works if you were in a dialogue, deleted the message, and the dialogue has not yet been closed.
Remember: If you delete messages using this method, the interlocutor will still have them.
After recovery, the letter will be displayed in the standard form.
Display a message after recovery
Contacting VK support service
If you deleted a message or conversation with a user and have already left this page, then you can restore it by contacting support.
Write a message to support
To do this, follow these steps:
- Go to the "Help" section at this link .
- Write your request in the appropriate line.
- Click "Submit" .
- In the text of the request, indicate the id of your page and the profile of the person with whom you were corresponding.
- Wait for a response. It will be displayed in the "My Questions" .
Please note: Your deleted correspondence is saved by the interlocutor, so you can ask him to forward deleted messages to you.
Browser extension
Vkopt is a browser extension that helps collect all messages in a special statistical file, and if you delete a message, you can then retrieve it from the file and view it.
Browser extension that allows you to recover messages after deletion
To install and use this extension, do the following:
- download the extension from this link .
- Log in to your VK profile.
- Open the "My Messages" .
- Thanks to the installed extension, in this section you will have a new item “Actions” .
- Open it and click "Statistics" .
- Set all the necessary parameters and click on the “Let’s go” .
Set the parameters and click “Let’s go”
- Within a few seconds, the data will be processed, and then you will receive the result - statistics on correspondence with each of your friends or other users.
The statistics will be displayed on the next page.
Now you know all the ways to help recover deleted messages. If the support service refused your request, then use the browser extension. Everything is simple and convenient. Good luck!
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".
In what cases is it possible and when not to restore correspondence?
In theory and in practice this can be done if:
- Not much time had passed since the messages were deleted, and the profile was not closed;
- The data was saved by the person who responded to the messages (interlocutor);
- Preliminary settings for forwarding to mail have been made;
- Other resources with a similar option are used;
- The browser through which you log in has been saved to the cache memory.
If none of the points are met, there is no hope of restoring the dialogue.
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.
- After launching a browser with the extension, go to the correspondence section. Please note that additional functions have appeared.
- Click on the new menu and find the “Statistics” item. Next, select the desired settings and save the changes.
- 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.
Manually delete unnecessary messages
Using this method, you can perform a partial cleaning of a certain VKontakte dialogue. This can be useful provided that you do not need to delete completely all information from received or sent letters, but only some.
Moreover, since 2021, the developers have given us the opportunity to delete outgoing messages even from the interlocutor (if not too much time has passed).
In any case, deleting specific messages may be necessary, for example if you believe that someone else is reading your page. This function has many purposes and everyone will find a use for it.
So how to do it:
Go to “Messages” and select a dialogue with the person where you need to delete some of the letters. Now left-click on the letter that requires deletion.
After this, its area will turn darker, a check mark will appear on the right, signaling our choice, and in the upper part of the dialog window, you will see a trash can button, which deletes letters.
You can select several dialogue items at once, but no more than a hundred. If more is required, then divide them by hundreds. You wash one first, then the other.
When deleting only your emails, a confirmation window may appear where you can select the “delete for everyone” option. This is what I talked about earlier - the ability to delete a message even from the interlocutor. The condition is to highlight only your letters and if they were sent not too long ago.
When this parameter is set, the message will also be deleted from the dialogue of your interlocutor (or several, if we are talking about a conference).
In some cases, instead of deleting, you can simply create a new VK page and start running it again. I described how to do this in a recent publication, read it if you are interested.
In this simple way it is possible to delete individual letters. Now let's look at a more global deletion.
How to recover individual messages?
If you suddenly deleted one or more messages, you can immediately restore it right in the chat window. To do this, you will need to click on the “Restore” button.
The message will work in standard mode after such a restoration.
Just a moment, I hope it will be useful for you to find out how to find your double by photo or who visited the VKontakte page.
How to download a VK data archive from your phone?
Those wishing to receive a file with collected data through an official mobile phone should not waste time searching for their own information. The administration has provided the ability to save information only through the full version of the portal. Using the application does not allow you to request an archive, since such a function has not yet been added to it.
Theoretically, users can use the phone's browser, but such a solution can hardly be called convenient. It is much easier to get to a computer or laptop and request personal information that the social network stores through a PC.
Checking the VKopt extension in action
Before preparing this material, I analyzed information regarding the recovery of deleted messages. Many people advised using the VKopt extension. Supposedly, you can use it to collect all the statistics of your messages (see VK message statistics), and view any dialogue, including deleted ones. I tested this extension at work. Here's what I got.
Here is the link to the download page.
https://vkopt.net/download/
Select the version for your browser and install in standard mode. After that, go to your VK page.
Next, go to the “My Messages” section. Here we have a new menu item called “Actions”. Open it and click “Statistics”.
Set the parameters as shown in the image below. Then click the "Let's Go" button.
Please wait some time for all data to be processed.
As a result, you will get this result.
All your dialogues will be collected here. Pay attention to the "Last message" column. The date and time are indicated there - and they are made in the form of a link. The developers claim that if you click on it, you will be taken to a dialogue page. Even if it was deleted.
But this function doesn't work! I specifically tried to delete the correspondence with the user, then went to it from the “Statistics” page. As a result, I ended up with a general list of dialogues.
I discussed all 3 methods in a short video tutorial.
