How to Recover Deleted iPhone Messages

How to Recover Deleted iPhone Messages
1. Recover Deleted iPhone Messages from iTunes Backup

To recover deleted iPhone text messages from iTunes backup by restoring the backup can be a little risky because new SMS messages since last sync will not be stored in iTunes backup. All text messages will be replaced by the text messages in the backup after you click Restore Backup. What's worse, the other apps will also be replaced by the data in your backup. If you are OK with this, then you can continue to recover deleted iPhone messages from iTunes backup.


Simply connect the iPhone to the computer and then launch iTunes.


Click on the device icon once it shows up in iTunes.


In the Backups option, click "Restore Backup..." to choose the most relevant backup and then click "Restore".



If you don't want to lose all the other data on your device in order to recover the lost text messages, you can use the tool iTransor (iOS 12 supported) to restore individual app data including text messages from iTunes backup to your iPhone, and also merge the data in the backup with the current Messages app data on your iPhone. This also works for iCloud backup, which means you can also restore only Messages data from iCloud backup to iPhone.
2. Recover Deleted iPhone Text Messages from iCloud Backup

It's a pity that iCloud may not back up all the text messages for users who have only 5GB free iCloud space, so this method may not be useful for all. But if you have enough iCloud space and have uploaded your text messages to iCloud as backup, then probabaly you can succeed in performing the iCloud backup recovery.

Step 1: Go to Settings > General > Reset on your iPhone, then choose "Erase All Content and Settings".



Step 2: From the Apps & Data screen, choose to recover from iCloud Backup, then sign in to iCloud and select "Choose backup," then choose from a list of available backups in iCloud.



You may get to know that Spotlight Search can show you deleted text messages possibly, but you still can't open or recover them. However, this function can help you to locate the deleted text messages faster so that you can recover deleted iPhone text messages from iCloud quicker. To make sure text messages is available for Spotlight Search, you need to check in Settings> General> Spotlight Search, and make sure Message is checked. If you can't remember the first sentence of the deleted text messages or the sender, you can use Spotlight Search with the keyword in the SMS.

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