WhatsApp disappearing messages

[LM240]

Hello.

Work are lying and I’m trying to recover messages on WhatsApp, but disappearing messages was switched on. Damn.

I believe it is tightly locked down, but does anyone know of a method of recovery?

Messages from Jan 2023. I believe I would have had message backup always enabled.

Thanks.

[the-norseman]

If they are set to disappear they will disappear.

[Rough101]

Are you in between cabinet meetings?

[Road2Ruin]

Rough101 said:

Are you in between cabinet meetings?

my first thought too

[blueg33]

LM240 said:

Hello.

Work are lying and I’m trying to recover messages on WhatsApp, but disappearing messages was switched on. Damn.

I believe it is tightly locked down, but does anyone know of a method of recovery?

Messages from Jan 2023. I believe I would have had message backup always enabled.

Thanks.

Hi Boris or Rischi

If you google it, I am pretty sure the instructions are quite clear, even if you are switching platforms from IOS to Android etc

[Mazinbrum]

People use WhatsApp for work? Sounds dangerous to me.

[Condi]

Mazinbrum said:

People use WhatsApp for work? Sounds dangerous to me.

Not officially, hence the disappearing messages!

[Mazinbrum]

Condi said:

Mazinbrum said:

People use WhatsApp for work? Sounds dangerous to me.

Not officially, hence the disappearing messages!

Hence the need to stick to communications with a trail as work lie.

[LM240]

Mazinbrum said:

Condi said:

Mazinbrum said:

People use WhatsApp for work? Sounds dangerous to me.

Not officially, hence the disappearing messages!

Hence the need to stick to communications with a trail as work lie.

Not so much using it for work, but a message to a colleague which would assist countering the lie.

[JQ]

Why on earth do people set up disappearing messages on WhattsApp? One of the dads for a kids football team I manage does it and it drives me nuts. We’re not discussing nuclear launch codes, so I really don’t understand the need so such secrecy.

I hope you’re able to recover the message and I’m sorry I can’t help in that regard.

[phil-sti]

JQ said:

Why on earth do people set up disappearing messages on WhattsApp? One of the dads for a kids football team I manage does it and it drives me nuts. We’re not discussing nuclear launch codes, so I really don’t understand the need so such secrecy.

I hope you’re able to recover the message and I’m sorry I can’t help in that regard.

I have it on mine and some of the stuff that gets sent around needs deleting.

[JQ]

phil-sti said:

JQ said:

Why on earth do people set up disappearing messages on WhattsApp? One of the dads for a kids football team I manage does it and it drives me nuts. We’re not discussing nuclear launch codes, so I really don’t understand the need so such secrecy.

I hope you’re able to recover the message and I’m sorry I can’t help in that regard.

I have it on mine and some of the stuff that gets sent around needs deleting.

Such as?

The frustration for me is that I'm often at work, so may open my WhatsApps but not actually get round to reading them, and by the time I do his message will have disappeared. The result being now, that if i see a message from him I will screenshot it, so he's not succeeded in deleting a record of his message, it's just stored in a different location.

[HantsRat]

JQ said:

Why on earth do people set up disappearing messages on WhattsApp? One of the dads for a kids football team I manage does it and it drives me nuts. We’re not discussing nuclear launch codes, so I really don’t understand the need so such secrecy.

I hope you’re able to recover the message and I’m sorry I can’t help in that regard.

All on my chats has a 7 day deletion. Why the need to store all our conversation history? If you haven't read it within 7 days, ask again.

[JQ]

HantsRat said:

JQ said:

Why on earth do people set up disappearing messages on WhattsApp? One of the dads for a kids football team I manage does it and it drives me nuts. We’re not discussing nuclear launch codes, so I really don’t understand the need so such secrecy.

I hope you’re able to recover the message and I’m sorry I can’t help in that regard.

All on my chats has a 7 day deletion. Why the need to store all our conversation history? If you haven't read it within 7 days, ask again.

60% of my groups are about events / holidays / weekends away with different groups of people. Storing that information is very useful, plus the individual groups share photos.

Of the say 100 people I'm in regular contact with on WhatsApp this chap is the only one who's messages disappear.

[boyse7en]

JQ said:

HantsRat said:

JQ said:

Why on earth do people set up disappearing messages on WhattsApp? One of the dads for a kids football team I manage does it and it drives me nuts. We’re not discussing nuclear launch codes, so I really don’t understand the need so such secrecy.

I hope you’re able to recover the message and I’m sorry I can’t help in that regard.

All on my chats has a 7 day deletion. Why the need to store all our conversation history? If you haven't read it within 7 days, ask again.

60% of my groups are about events / holidays / weekends away with different groups of people. Storing that information is very useful, plus the individual groups share photos.

Of the say 100 people I'm in regular contact with on WhatsApp this chap is the only one who's messages disappear.

Similar here. The only WA group chats i'm on are all to do with my two kids' various sporting clubs (waterpolo, badminton, gig rowing, volleyball, etc) and while a lot of the messages are totally disposable, the ones that tell me where/when i have to be somewhere for a match or training session are essential. Deleting them every few days would cause havoc!

[HantsRat]

JQ said:

60% of my groups are about events / holidays / weekends away with different groups of people. Storing that information is very useful, plus the individual groups share photos.

Of the say 100 people I'm in regular contact with on WhatsApp this chap is the only one who's messages disappear.

Photos you can set to download to your phones gallery so that's a non issue. For those chats you wish to keep simply don't use the feature.

This group you're in with this chap - Do you really need to retain all the info? If you missed the message, just ask again.

[JQ]

HantsRat said:

JQ said:

60% of my groups are about events / holidays / weekends away with different groups of people. Storing that information is very useful, plus the individual groups share photos.

Of the say 100 people I'm in regular contact with on WhatsApp this chap is the only one who's messages disappear.

Photos you can set to download to your phones gallery so that's a non issue. For those chats you wish to keep simply don't use the feature.

This group you're in with this chap - Do you really need to retain all the info? If you missed the message, just ask again.

I don't need to move the photos to my gallery as they're nicely stored in what is in effect a file within WhatApp - If i need to find a photo from the lads ski trips I know exactly where to find it.

Yes I need to retain information, that's why I ask for it - it's about his child and I have a safeguarding responsibility. Repeatedly asking for information gets tiring after a while - as a volunteer, I have enough to do without people making life more difficult and I'm sending out multiple messages a week to that person.

I've just checked and he's clearly turned it off for our group, looks to have happened a couple of weeks ago - me repeatedly asking him to send me an email copy for every message I sent clearly made him think twice. Success, whoop whoop.