No – vanish mode doesn't delete all of your messages within an existing chat. Once you turn on vanish mode, you'll enter a different screen from the rest of your chat, and you won't see any of your previous chat history. After you turn off vanish mode, all of the vanish mode chats will be deleted.
No, Vanish mode will not hide old messages. Old messages will remain in your chat before and after you have activated vanish mode.
Disappearing messages (texts, photos, and videos) can't be viewed again after the recipient first sees them. Once the vanish mode is closed, both the sender & recipient will no longer have access to those messages.
You can only use vanish mode in a chat with another Instagram account. You won't be able to use it in a group chat or in a chat with a Messenger or Facebook account. Certain professional accounts can't receive messages in vanish mode.
Enable Disappearing Messages for Individual Chats
Scroll to the bottom of the contact info page and select Disappearing Messages. In the “Message Timer” section, select the duration beyond which messages in the conversion will be deleted for both parties. There are three options—24 hours, 7 Days, and 90 Days.
The recipient's chat window will also be black, with a message on screen indicating that it's in Vanish Mode. 5. When you want to end Vanish Mode and go back to messaging as usual, tap "Turn Off Vanish Mode" at the top of the screen.
You can't view disappearing photos or videos after you've sent them in Instagram chats, but you can see if they were seen or if someone took a screenshot. Tap or in the top right of Feed. Tap the conversation where you've sent a disappearing photo or video. You'll see the status of the message below it.
These messages only last until the recipient reads them, after which they'll disappear. It's a great way to send quick messages without clogging up your regular chat. If you or your friend take a screenshot of the Vanish Mode chat, both users will be alerted.
Keep in mind that deleted messages on Instagram cannot be restored. Content in Recently deleted will be automatically deleted 30 days later, or up to 24 hours for stories that aren't in your stories archive.
There are a few reasons why your Instagram direct messages might have disappeared. The other person deleted the messages. If the other person deleted the messages, they will disappear from your chat as well. You were blocked.
Deleting and recovering messages changes only your own Messages conversations, not those of your recipients. You can restore messages you deleted for up to 30 days.
You can only recover messages and conversations that you deleted within the last 30 to 40 days.
Once you delete a text message or conversation on your iPhone, it gets immediately moved to a folder within the Messages app called Recently Deleted. However, the tricky part is that only iPhones running iOS 16 or later allow users to view this folder.
If you send a message to someone and they don't read it within 14 days, the message will automatically disappear from the chat.
Be aware of disappearing messages.
To see if disappearing messages are enabled for a conversation: Tap the chat to open it. Tap the name of the person at the top of the chat. Scroll down and look for "Disappearing Messages." If it says "Off" beneath it, messages are not set to disappear automatically.
Instagram vanish mode protects you in case bad actors were to hack into your account—or someone else snoops around on your phone. It allows you to erase the details of a private chat after the convo is over, which offers a bit of freedom and safety.
Vanish mode lets users exchange temporary messages between two people (not group chats). After a Messenger or Instagram user turns on the vanish mode, it is only active for them. The other person in the conversation needs to enable vanish mode manually.
Clearing or deleting your messages on your devices doesn't mean the data is permanently gone, it's just been filed away differently.
Once you delete a conversation, it will no longer be visible in your inbox. Keep in mind that this only deletes the conversation for you, and that it will still appear for other people included in the conversation.
For Instagram, the company says it usually takes around 90 days to completely remove data. But security researchers have found similar issues with other services in the past, including Twitter, which retained direct messages between users for years after they were supposedly deleted.