How to View Hidden Facebook Messages on iPhone/Android/Computer

Part 1: Are Facebook and Messenger linked together

Hidden messages on Facebook messenger exist in the inbox of the Messenger app. Therefore, it is important to know the relationship between these apps.

Messenger is a messaging service that is owned by Facebook. It was launched in 2011 in place of Facebook chat. You can use it even if you don’t have a Facebook account. Therefore, it is accessible for the people who have not signed in or have closed their Facebook account.

Facebook and Messenger, both of these apps are connected partially. If you have a Facebook account, you are not required to have the messenger app.

Part 2: How to Find Hidden Facebook Messages on iPhone

Many iPhone users do not know how to find hidden messages on Facebook. However, it is quite simple. To find hidden Facebook messages iPhone users should follow the steps given below:

• Go to the Messenger app on the iPhone and click on the profile photo which can be seen on the top left corner of your screen.
• Choose the message request option.
• To view filtered or hidden messages, tap on spam. This will make the hidden messages visible to you.

Part 3: How to View Hidden Facebook Messages on Android

It is a common question of many Android users how to find hidden messages on Messenger. Like iPhone, you can easily view Messenger hidden messages by following the steps given below:

• Go to the Messenger app on your Android phone.
• Click on the profile photo that will be present in the top left corner of your chat window.

• Now choose message requests.

  
• Click on “you may know” for viewing the message requests. Select spam for viewing the messages that are marked as spam. Now you can choose to delete or accept the message requests.

Part 4: How to Get Hidden Facebook Messages on Computer

To get hidden messages on Messenger, on your computer, you should follow these steps:

• Go to your Facebook and sign in to your Facebook account.

• Click on the Messenger icon present in the upper right corner of your screen.

• Then choose the three dots that appear at the top. A menu will show up. Select message requests.

  

• A list of messages will be visible from the secret folder. Now it is up to you to delete the requests or reply to them. For viewing all the messages of the secret folder, choose “see all in messenger”.

Part 5: How to Hide Messages on Messenger

Many users are worried about how to hide messages on Messenger. Messenger allows its users to hide their conversations by a feature called Archive conversations. If you enable this feature for a conversation, it will hide this conversation from your main chat list. To know how to hide chat in Messenger, do the following:

• Go to the Messenger app on the phone.
• Swipe from left to right on the chat you want to hide.

• Then click on the Archive option. This will hide that chat or messages and it will disappear from your chat list.

  

For finding this chat again you should remember the person’s name. By doing this you will be able to unhide this chat easily when you want.

Bonus Tip: How to Find Deleted Messages On Facebook Messenger

What if you accidentally deleted some important chats in Messenger? How to get them back? You must try Tenorshare UltData.

Tenorshare UltData is professional software that you can use for recovering data. It helps users to recover their data from iOS devices, iTunes backup and iCloud. It is capable of recovering more than 35 types of files including photos, videos, contacts, messages, notes, etc.

• Download and install Tenorshare UltData software on your PC. Connect your iPhone to the computer via a lightning-to USB data cable. Then select the “Recover Data from iOS Devices” option.

  

• Then select the files types that you need to recover. Here we need to tick “Messenger”. Then click on “Scan”.

  

• Once the scanning is complete, all of your iPhone data including the deleted data will be displayed on your computer screen. Now choose Messenger for viewing the deleted data. Select the messages that you need to recover and then choose the recover option. This will recover all of the selected messenger messages.

  

Conclusion

Facebook provides a useful feature of hidden Facebook messages that protect you from unwanted annoying messages. However, sometimes it deprives you of your important messenger messages. Therefore, you should know how to find and view these hidden messages.

This article provides you with a complete guide on how to find hidden messages and how to recover deleted messages with UltData.