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title: 2014: Reply target not found. | API Docs
description: The reply target message does not exist in this chat.
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**HTTP status:** `422`.

reply\_to\_message\_id names no message available to this account in the addressed chat. Nothing was sent.

## Troubleshooting

- Use a message id from this chat’s transcript (GET /v1/chats/{chat}/events).

## Related

- [Sending a message](/channel/whatsapp/api/resources/chats/subresources/messages/methods/send/index.md)