November 27, 2025
How to Recover Deleted Hangouts Messages
At some point, nearly every Google Hangouts user has faced that moment of panic a message thread disappears, a conversation is wiped, or a piece of crucial information gets accidentally deleted. Even though Google Hangouts has officially been replaced by Google Chat, millions of old accounts and stored conversations still exist across Gmail, Android backups, and Google Takeout archives. So the big question remains: Is it still possible to recover deleted Hangouts messages?The answer is: sometimes yes, sometimes no depending on how the message was deleted and where it was stored. In this report-style breakdown, we dive deep into how


