Didn't Mean to Delete That? Here's How to Recover Deleted Text Messages on Your iPhone

[Grace Liu]

Did you know that text messages don’t really get deleted when you delete them? Unless you reset your iPhone to its factory settings — an action designed to erase everything on your iDevice — there is a way to retrieve those texts.

If you’re passing your iPhone on to someone else, or selling it, then performing a factory reset is the safest way to rid your iDevice of its precious data. If you’ve deleted some texts by mistake and want to recover them, however, there are ways you can do this. Let’s take a look at a few examples.

Restoring an iCloud backup is probably the easiest way to recover deleted text messages on your iPhone. Provided that you have iCloud Backup turned on, and your iPhone has been doing its scheduled backups, then your deleted texts should be backed up to iCloud. The service backs up messages sent via iMessage, SMS, and MMS, though it does require the SIM card that was in use when you made the backup.

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①Go to Settings > iCloud > Backup.
②Make sure iCloud Backup is turned on.
③After that, you will have to erase your iPhone by going into Settings > General > Reset.
④Choose Erase All Content and Settings.
⑤Once done, you’ll be asked if you want to restore your iPhone from an iCloud Backup.
⑥Choose Restore from iCloud Backup.

Once your backup is restored, you should be able to access any texts that were on your phone when you first made the backup.

[TaylorSims00]

You will have to sign into your iCloud account in order to be able to backup. When signing in ensure that you use your Apple ID and password. You should remain connected to the wireless connection in order for the process to complete.

These are the two simple steps to recover deleted text messages on iPhone from iCloud. The main disadvantage of this process is that you will have to overwrite all your current data in order to restore your lost data. The other disadvantage is that with this process you will not be able to retrieve specific messages.

[yuntaole]

To recover deleted text messages on your iPhone, the easy way is using iOS Data Recovery tool. It helps you scan out deleted text messages and display them on program window. Then you can preview and recover them to computer via usb cable.

[Wlee2060]

If you have a habit of backing up your iPhone data regularly, you can easily get your deleted text messages from your iTunes or iCloud backup files directly. But please be aware that by restoring iTunes/iCloud backup file, it will replace the newer data on your iPhone.
So, if you don't want your new data overwritten by the backup, you can make another backup in advance. Alternatively, you can try to use a professional and reliable third-party iOS data recovery tool such as Joyoshare iPhone Data Recovery to recover deleted iPhone photos.
To learn the detailed step-by-step instructions on how to recover deleted text messages on iPhone, read the article:
Recover Deleted Text Messages from iPhone? Solved! Joyoshare

[xbvuip21]

It is easy to recover deleted text messages on your iPhone using TunesKit iPhone Data Recovery, which is a highly recommended tool that can restore deleted text messages on iPhone with the highest recovery rate. It can not only recover deleted texts directly from iPhone with no backup, but also extract iTunes/iCloud backups to retrieve the deleted messages for iPhone. All you need to do is taking three simple steps: choose data recovery mode, scan and preview the lost data, select and recover the desired files. Then you'll find all the missing data back to your devices.

[jojo]

When you delete or remove text messages on iphone, they would be first moved to the trash bin and the device will mark these files as inactive. Actually, they still exist on your phone but are invisible and replaceable. And the system would not really erase them until you add some new files to cover them.
Now,you can use some data recovery tool to get them back,such as Mobikin Doctor for iOS,which has powerful scanning method to scan and retrieve deleted data on iphone.

[Punot1992]

Restore iPhone from iTunes or iCloud backup is one of the choices to get back deleted messages on iPhone. However, All data and settings will be erased. iPhone Data Recovery, a 3rd-party program to recover deleted messages and iMessages from iPhone with or without backup. Hope that it will be helpful to you.

[BeJimmieBof]

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[LazePaw]

Even if a text message is deleted by yourself, it may not actually disappear from your phone. So if you regret the deletion, there is still a chance to reverse it. You need lazepaw to help you recover deleted messages on iPhone . It can find deleted text messages from the depths of the phone or on iTunes or iCloud and preview them in real time.

[JillianHarris]

Restoring data from iCloud is a feasible method. But it is not for everyone. The general method is to use RecoveryTool iPhone Data Recovery or other data recovery software to extract data from iOS devices or backup files.