Instagram is one of the most popular social networks today because the numbers exceed 1.000 billion active users every month. A figure that only WhatsApp can exceed as it is one of the applications that each person has to stay in contact with family and friends.
As with others, sometimes we delete certain content from it by mistake, but it is possible to recover deleted messages. If you have deleted any content, you are still in time to recover it and restore it if we want to on the Instagram network.
How to recover deleted messages from Instagram
To recover deleted messages from Instagram you only need a backup, vital if it is important information for you and in turn for your contacts. The application itself makes this backup, although for this we have to do a few steps to request it and recover it in a few hours.
Given the many options on Instagram, we have many things to do, but this time what we want is to recover something deleted by mistake. The information is quite valuable and sometimes necessary to have interactions, either to have more likes and comments from our network of contacts.
Wanting to recover deleted messages from Instagram you have to do the following:
- Access your Instagram profile and on the right side click on the three horizontal lines
- Once inside click on "Settings"
- Now go to «Security» and locate «Data and history», click on it
- Finally press «Download data» to request the Backup
- Now enter your email and password, it is vital and necessary to know what your account is
- The backup copy (Backup) includes images, videos, messages, information, likes, comments and everything that has been happening up to this precise moment
The backup usually takes approximately two days to arrive, but do not be alarmed, all the information will arrive to be able to restore what you have deleted by mistake. The file to download has the name "messages.json" and this will make it possible to read what was deleted and it is best to restore the deleted manually.
Instagram allows you to recover deleted messages and with it if you want to read any message or conversation that you have had previously without having to access the social network. You can read it on a phone, tablet or PC, you will only need a notepad or reader.
