How To View Archived Messages On Facebook Messenger?

Facebook has the highest number of members in terms of a social media platform, and as of some data that was pulled out recently, the current number is at 1.3 billion. These Facebook accounts are not all individual accounts, and some of them are often used for business purposes by many domestic and international companies. Whatever may be the type of account, people interact with each other through messages on Facebook a lot. Initially, it started as a platform where you can interact with only your loved ones, but now it also acts to make new friends and expand a business. So some people end up having a long list of conversations in their Messenger application.

This long list of conversations can be overwhelming for most Facebook users, especially if most of these conversations are of no use anymore. In that case, the feature to archive these conversations can be handy to hide these conversations in a different location. So here in this article, we will see how one can archive Facebook messenger conversations and view them using either a desktop or a smartphone. Now without any further ado, let’s get into it.

How to Archive and View Archived Messages On Facebook Messenger?

Archiving a conversation in Facebook messenger will require the messenger application to be installed on your target device. Now let’s see how one can archive Facebook messages on a desktop, and then we will move to smartphones.

How to archive Facebook Messages on a Desktop?

If you have not downloaded the Facebook messenger application on your desktop yet, then download it before going ahead with the whole method. Click on this link and download the version of messenger according to your Operating system.

• Once you have the Messenger application installed on your Desktop, open it up and enter your account login credentials to open up your Facebook account on the messenger application.
• After successfully logging in, you will see the entire list of conversations on the application. Here, find the conversation that you want to archive in the left pane.
• Click on the three-dot icon next to the conversation that you want to archive and choose “Archive Chat” from the list of options that show up. The entire conversation will disappear from the list of conversations in the messenger application. It will be moved to the archived chat section.