How to Find and Recover Deleted Messages on Your iPhone

Also, if you accidentally deleted some text messages that you wanted to keep, there are ways to fix it.

Usually, it’s best to try this recovery process within a month of deleting messages, and here’s how you can do it.

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3 Ways to Recover Deleted iPhone Messages

An easy way to get them back with iOS 16

As part of the latest iOS 16 operating system update, you will be able to recover all text messages within one month after they are deleted.

As part of latest update, messages can be recovered within one month of deletion (Image : PA)

To do this, all you have to do is go to Messages, then Edit in the top left corner, and there they will be an option to “Show recently deleted”.

After that, there will be a list of deleted messages that you can choose to recover.

Recover with iCloud Backup

You are tone phone is configured to back up to iCloud then you may be able to recover some messages with a recent backup.

Business Intern said about it: “It will make you your iPhone to the point where you made that backup, which means that while it may help you recover the text message, you may lose other data.”

This process involves resetting your iPhone so be careful not to lose the data/photos you want to keep.

To do this, go to Settings, click on your name at the top, select iCloud and make sure messages is enabled in the app list.

After this tap iCloud backup and make sure your phone was recently backed up.

Go back to the Settings app main menu and select General, then scroll down and select Reset or Transfer or Reset iPhonedepending on the version of iOS you have.

Tap Erase all content and settings, then confirm that’s what you want to do.

Messages from iPhones Could Potentially Be Recovered Using Backup (Image : PA)

After resetting your iPhone to factory conditions, go through the initial welcome processes and on the Apps & Data screen, choose Restore from iCloud Backup.

Finally, log in to iCloud to access your backups, then choose the last backup before deleting the SMS you want to recover.

Use iTunes or Finder

If you saved your iPhone on a Mac or PC instead of iCloudyou can try to restore your iPhone with this backup instead.

If you have a Mac, you’ll use the Finder tool, and if you’re on Windows, you’ll use the iTunes tool.

To do this, you’ll need to connect your iPhone to your computer and open iTunes or Finder, if they don’t show up automatically.

In iTunes, click the phone icon at the top of the screen and choose Summary from the left menu.

Meanwhile, on Finder, click your phone’s name under Locations.

From there, click Restore Backup and your old texts will hopefully reappear on your phone.

If they do not appear, your backup does not include these texts.