What happens to Facebook messages when you delete your account?

If you deactivate your Facebook account:

No one besides you will be able to see your profile. Specific information, such as sent messages, will remain visible. Your name will show up on friend lists, but only for your friends.

What happens to your Facebook messages after you delete your account?

A deletion request is cancelled if you log back into your Facebook account during this time. Some information, such as messaging history, isn't stored in your account. This means friends may still have access to messages you sent after your account has been deleted.

Does permanently deleting your Facebook also delete your messages from both sides?

If you delete a message, the recipient will know you did that. You can always delete the 'You unsent a message' note from your Messenger app. However, this does not mean the note will disappear from the recipient's chat history.

Does deleting Facebook delete Messenger messages?

You can keep using Messenger after you deactivate your Facebook account. If you had a Facebook account and deactivated it, using Messenger won't reactivate your Facebook account, and your Facebook friends can still message you.

How do I permanently delete Messenger chat history?

To delete a conversation in Facebook Messenger using the app, hold down your finger on the conversation and then tap "Delete." Confirm you want to delete the conversation to delete it permanently.

When you delete your Facebook account what happens to messages?

Are FB messages permanently deleted?

But now you want it back. Unfortunately, when you delete a message in the Facebook Messenger app, it's permanently deleted, according to Facebook Messenger's official policy. This is great for privacy but can become a problem if you delete something valuable by mistake.

How do you delete Messenger conversations on both sides?

How long do messages stay in FB Messenger?

Facebook's message expiration feature can be enabled from a dedicated "Disappearing Messages" tab on a contact's page in the Messenger app, according to the screenshots. Messages for a conversation thread can then be set to expire after 1 minute, 15 minutes, 1 hour, 4 hours, or 24 hours.

How do I permanently delete my messages on Facebook?

How do you delete all conversations on Facebook?

Does Messenger automatically delete old messages?

Unless you actively delete the history between you and another user, Messenger retains the entirety of your back-and-forth conversations, stretching back years. It could be jarring to some to be hit with an old thread with an ex or a family member or friend who has passed.