Keeping a History of Your Instant Messages
| What Is Instant Message History? | Controlling Message History | Viewing All Message History | Viewing the Message History of One Contact | Searching Your Message History | Deleting Messages from History |
Viewing All of Your Message History
You can view the history of all instant message conversations you’ve had with all of your contacts.
Here’s How
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Click the History button near the top-right of the page.
The My History tab opens showing every conversation you’ve had with each of your contacts while the history feature has been enabled.
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To view a specific conversation, click the line in the My History tab.
The conversation opens in the lower part of the My History tab where you can scroll and read the entire conversation you had with the contact on that day.
What’s Next
You can reply to the selected contact from the lower part of the My History tab by clicking the Reply button. You aren’t actually replying to the content of the displayed conversation, but you are starting a new instant message with the contact. Messenger archives the reply as a new conversation made on the current day.
Words to Know
- Contact: a person with whom you interact; someone to whom you might want to send an email or instant message.