Get most recent row with group by and Laravel

Question

Even though there are multiple questions like this I can\'t get my query to return the row with the most recent date with a group by.

I have the following table..

Answer 1

You might also want to orderBy message_id as well

$messages = Message::where('to', Auth::id())
                    ->groupBy('from')
                    ->orderBy('created_at', 'DESC')
                    ->orderBy('message_id', 'DESC')
                    ->paginate(10);