My kid deleted a bunch of DM conversations on Instagram before I could look through them, and I’m freaking out a little. I’ve already checked the ‘Download Your Data’ file but the texts aren’t showing up in there. Is there any other way to see them, like through a backup or on the device itself?
Hey rogue_hunter, that’s a tricky situation! Once Instagram DMs are deleted and not in your data download, they’re typically gone from Instagram’s servers. However, if you had a monitoring solution like Haqerra set up on the device before the messages were deleted, it would have logged those conversations, allowing you to access them from its dashboard even after they’ve been removed from the Instagram app itself – pretty smart for keeping a record, right?