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Do you want to find months old messages on WhatsApp? Do you know that you can also find old messages on WhatsApp using date? If not, then let's know here how.
 

New features are being launched on the world's most popular instant messaging platform, WhatsApp, to improve the user experience. With the help of new features, connecting with friends and family has become very easy. Apart from chatting with friends and family, many business and job related messages also come on WhatsApp.

Countless messages are sent and received on WhatsApp every day, many of which are important. When it comes to finding the important message, one has to scroll through the entire chat. The process of searching for the important message in the chat takes a lot of time and is full of hassle. But, do you know that with the help of some tricks on WhatsApp, you can find even months old messages in a jiffy? Yes, WhatsApp has recently launched a feature, with the help of which months old chats can be searched with the help of date.

Search old messages on WhatsApp using date feature

• If you are searching for an old important message, then first open WhatsApp in your smartphone.
   
• After opening WhatsApp, go to the chat of the person where you are looking for the message.
   
• If you are using WhatsApp on an Android phone, then after opening the chat, click on the three dots on the top right side and select the search option there.
   
• If you are using WhatsApp on iPhone, then after opening the chat, click on the contact's name and select the search option in the details of the new page.
   
• After clicking on search, a small calendar icon will appear on the bottom right. Click on it and select the date for which you want to search for messages. Now all the messages of the selected date will be visible.
  
   

You can also find old WhatsApp messages using these methods

Search Bar

There is a search bar in every WhatsApp chat. With the help of this search bar, even years old WhatsApp messages can be searched. To use it, first go to the search bar and write the word or sentence you are looking for. After writing, click on the search icon, after which WhatsApp will start showing all the messages matching that word or sentence.

If you are unable to find your important message even after searching in the search bar option, then it can be beneficial to use similar words and sentences from the surrounding chats.

Media and documents

If you are looking for any photos, videos or documents, then you can also take help of Media, Links and Docs options.

keep these things in mind

• Chat backup: Before searching for old messages on WhatsApp, make sure that you have backed up the old chats . Without a chat backup, old messages may get deleted.

• Disappearing messages: Along with backing up chats, the option of disappearing messages should also be kept off. By keeping this option on, messages and chats get deleted after a limited time.

• Install updates: Keep installing updates of the messaging app from time to time to keep access to the new features and old chats of WhatsApp. Sometimes old messages are not visible due to the update being too old.