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My best guess is that the app itself stores messages for about 7 days so that you can browse your history and retrieve messages whenever you want.īut when a message is sent and is yet to be delivered to the recipient, does WhatsApp have any policy guideline that indicates how long they'll store messages before they are permanently deleted from their servers? Does WhatsApp notify the original sender of the message that the message was not delivered and has been deleted from their servers? Is there any warning message?Ĭurious to get answers to all the questions above. Kaustubh KatdareI'm on my quest of understanding WhatsApp and I could not get information on how long does WhatsApp store undelivered messages before they are deleted permanently? I'm aware that WhatsApp does not store the messages that have been delivered to the recipient.

Files that are sent through the WhatsApp Service will reside on our servers after delivery for a short period of time, but are deleted and stripped of any identifiable information within a short period of time in accordance with our general retention policies. WhatsApp may retain date and time stamp information associated with successfully delivered messages and the mobile phone numbers involved in the messages, as well as any other information which WhatsApp is legally compelled to collect. In case you are wondering about the files sent and received over Whatsapp, they've further mentioned that. The contents of any delivered messages are not kept or retained by WhatsApp - the only records of the content of any delivered messages reside directly on the sender’s and recipient’s mobile devices (and which may be deleted at the user’s option).You can check it here.

Once a message has been delivered, it no longer resides on our servers.

If the message is undelivered for thirty (30) days, the undelivered message is deleted from our servers. If the recipient is not online, the undelivered message is held in WhatsApp’s server until it can be delivered. I checked the Whatsapp official website, and under the "legal" category they've mentioned that.