This article describes how to search and retrieve your Messenger chat history in the iOS and Android apps and Facebook on the web. Here's how to search your Facebook message history by keyword or search within a conversation from a browser. Here's how to search Messenger's message history using a specific keyword:
Here's how to perform a search within a Messenger conversation:
In the iOS or Android Messenger app on your mobile device, here's how to search through your message history by keyword or search within a conversation.
If you can't find what you're looking for, it might be in your Message Requests. Here's how to access the Message Requests screen from Facebook or Messenger in a web browser as well as the Messenger mobile app. Follow these steps to access message requests using the desktop version of Messenger:
Follow these steps to access your message requests using the Messenger mobile app:
If you want to download a complete history of your Messenger conversations, use the Facebook Download Your Information tool either from Facebook on the web or the Messenger mobile app. Follow these steps to download your Messenger history using a web browser:
Follow these steps to download your Messenger history using the Messenger mobile app for iOS or Messenger for Android:
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