How to recover correspondence in VK

Restore VK correspondence

Sometimes there is a need to get back deleted messages in VKontakte, which may contain important information, accidentally erased. Problems with recovery arise because of the social network's policy to preserve the privacy of users, and there are few opportunities to restore messages.

Ways to recover deleted correspondence in VKontakte

When messages are deleted in the first 24 hours after they are sent, the user has the choice of deleting them for everyone or only for themselves. After 24 hours, messages are deleted only at the sender and are saved at the recipient. In this case it is possible to ask the other participant of the dialog or other participants of the common conversation to provide these messages.

You can also restore messages immediately after deleting them, before the page is refreshed by clicking on the blue “restore” sign.

If messages have been deleted from both participants and the page has been updated, it is impossible to restore the correspondence. Services that offer services to recover deleted messages are often fraudulent and may use your data to send spam.

The only way to save your messages before deleting them is to take screenshots. You can also forward messages to your additional page or to a trusted person, leaving the correspondence only with yourself.

Lifehack for saving deleted messages in VKontakte:

Forward the messages to your additional page and then to another person. This way, the latest version of the correspondence will be saved even after deleting all other messages in the dialog.