Seeing what are the first messages you’ve exchanged on WhatsApp with your friend or girlfriend is something that intrigues many people.
However, the instant messaging app WhatsApp doesn’t make things very easy. Going back and seeing old messages can be a very time consuming and tiring task, especially if you have interacted and exchanged many messages with the person.
Finding old messages isn’t impossible, but there are several methods that will make your life easier. These methods that I will show you shortly will get you to these old messages faster.
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- 1How to see the first messages on WhatsApp chat?
- 11. Use WhatsApp on your desktop and swipe up
- 22. Download your messages and scroll there if there are too many messages
- 33. Place a heavy object on the spacebar or down arrow button
- 44. Ask them if they remember your first message
- 2Conclusions
How to see first messages on WhatsApp chat?
As mentioned, there are several ways you can go back to your WhatsApp conversations and see the first few messages that have been sent back and forth in a conversation between you and another person.
- Use WhatsApp on your desktop and swipe up
WhatsApp is an instant messaging platform that you can use on both the mobile app and any desktop.
If you want to swipe quickly and quickly through early messages, thus finding old messages, doing so on a larger screen, like a desktop, rather than a small screen, like a mobile device will help a lot.
The following steps will walk you through using Whatsapp on your desktop and being able to find these old messages.
Once you’re logged into your account, find the conversation you’ll be searching for messages from. You will notice that the conversation screen is much larger than on a mobile device, which will help you see more messages.
Using your computer’s touchpad or mouse, swipe up until you find the first few messages that have been sent in the conversation.
If you don’t want to scroll all the way down using the touchpad, you can also use the Page Up button continuously until you reach the top of the message thread.
If you know what the first few messages are saying, you can also use the Find feature for messages using the Ctrl F buttons on your desktop computer. To do this, scroll to where you think the messages can be found.
After you reach that point, click the Ctrl and F buttons simultaneously. A seek bar will appear. Type what you think the first messages say and they will appear once the search is complete.
- Download your messages and scroll there if there are too many messages
Another available option to locate old messages on Whatsapp is to download the messages of that conversation and then proceed to scroll through the conversation.
As this will download as a text file, there is nothing to upload and it will be easy to find all the messages you are looking for.
The following steps will walk you through downloading your Whatsapp messages and finding the conversation sections you are looking for.
Using the computer, log into the Whatsapp account.
Once you’re logged into your account, find the conversation you’ll be searching for messages from.
- Select the profile iconof the conversation you want to download.
- From there, you’ll want to click Settings. And then click on Security, followed by downloading data . You will be prompted to enter an email address to which the downloaded conversation will be sent.
- Go ahead and enter the emailyou want to use.
- After entering the email, you will receive the downloaded conversation at the email address you provided.
- Go ahead and download the conversation. Once the conversation is downloaded, you can scroll through the text file until you find what you’re looking for.
You can also go ahead and use the Find on Text File feature. To do this, open the conversation and click the Ctrl and F buttons. A search bar will appear and you will be able to search for what you are looking for.
- Place a heavy object on the spacebar or down arrow button
If you don’t want to go ahead and download the conversations from WhatsApp, there is another method you can try if you want to go back to the beginning of the conversation.
Something that may not seem so convenient or obvious is to use some kind of hold down object on the spacebar or up arrow button that will help you scroll pages up or down without having to make any effort yourself.
Find a heavy object that you can place on the keyboard.
This can be a book or even your phone. The object just needs to be heavy enough to hold the buttons down.
Go ahead and place the object and wait until the top of the page is reached. Once you get to the top of the page, you can go ahead and find old posts and read them.
- Ask them if they remember your first message
If you don’t want to find old messages in a conversation yourself, you can always go ahead and ask the other person in the conversation if there’s a chance they remember the first message you sent them.
If you think the other person in the conversation has a good memory and might be able to remember what the messages in the conversation were, ask them if they remember these early messages.
Conclusions
There are several methods you can use if you are looking to find old messages on WhatsApp and see what your first conversations with friends and family on the messaging platform were like.
If you want to access older messages on your Whatsapp account quickly, I recommend that you log into Whatsapp via the desktop app to get a better view of the old messages within the app.
Another option available to you when trying to locate old messages on Whatsapp is to go ahead and download the messages from that conversation and then proceed to scroll through the conversation if there are too many messages.
If you don’t want to scroll down to the page yourself, something that might not seem so obvious is to use some kind of hold down object on the up arrow button.
If you don’t want to find old messages in a conversation yourself, you can always go ahead and ask the other person in the conversation if there’s a chance they remember the first message you sent them or even ask them to swipe down tall themselves.