How KakaoTalk Deleted Messages Look in an Exported Chat
When you or the other person delete a message, a trace sometimes remains in the chat room. This page explains how that is displayed and the limits of the record. It does not cover ways to recover deleted content.
Not legal advice. This page is general information. Whether a court admits or relies on a chat is for the court; convokeep does not promise admission or any outcome. What is needed differs by case, so check with a lawyer or the Korea Legal Aid Corporation (☎132).
How does a deleted message look in the chat room?
In KakaoTalk, a notice sometimes appears where a deleted message used to be. The exact wording and conditions may differ by app version, and we could not confirm them from an official source. Check what you see on your screen.
How does it remain in the exported file?
How the deletion notice appears in the exported file may differ by app version. Open the exported file yourself, and if a deletion notice is visible, leave it as it is. convokeep only moves what is in the file into a PDF and does not fill in what is not there.
Can a hash show whether something was deleted?
No. A hash only shows that the file has not changed since the export. It cannot tell you whether a message was deleted before the export. See What a hash does and does not prove.
Should I try to bring back deleted content?
This page does not cover how to do that. If you need it, talk to a lawyer. Getting into someone else's device or account without permission can be a legal problem.
What can I do now?
Export the chat currently on your screen as soon as possible and keep it as the original. Over time, the records left on the device may change.
Privacy
Reading the file, building the PDF and calculating hashes all happen in your browser. No chat or attachment is uploaded and there is no account. See the privacy policy and the disclaimer.
Related guides
- How to keep the original KakaoTalk chat
- What a hash does and does not prove
- How to export a KakaoTalk chat
- How to submit KakaoTalk chats as evidence
Sources (checked 2026-10-29)
- KakaoTalk Customer Center: https://cs.kakao.com/ (we could not open and read the page body in this check. Please confirm it yourself.) We could not confirm menu names from an official source, and they may differ by app version.
Ready to try it?
Drop your exported .txt file on the convokeep app for a free preview. The first 3 pages are free (watermarked, no integrity page); saving the full PDF is a one-time paid feature. No chat or attachment is uploaded: the file is read in your browser. To check later that a file is unchanged, use the hash checker.
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