How to Check Your Message Inbox on Facebook

This article teaches you how to open and view your Facebook messages inbox, in Facebook Messenger for mobile. and on desktop

On Mobile

Open Facebook Messenger. This app resembles a white lightning bolt on a blue background. Doing so will open your Facebook Messenger to the last tab you had open.

Tap Home, It's a house-shaped tab in the bottom-left corner of the screen. This will take you to your inbox.

Review your inbox. Your newest messages will be at the top of the screen, just above the "Active Now" row of contacts. Scrolling down the Home tab's contents will show you progressively older messages. 

On desktop 

Open Facebook. Go to https://www.facebook.com/ in your preferred web browser. This will open your Facebook News Feed if you're logged in.

Click the Messenger icon. It's the lightning bolt-shaped icon in the top-right side of the Facebook page. Doing so will prompt a drop-down menu with your recent messages listed.

Click See all in messenger, This link is at the bottom of the drop-down menu. Clicking it takes you to your Messenger inbox 

Review your inbox. You can scroll through conversations in the column on the left side of the page. Recent conversations are at the top of the column, while older conversations are toward the bottom.