Text messaging is still available to businesses, banks, and advertisers. It is quite common to stay in touch with friends and family. Among the mass of messages you receive, it is natural to accidentally delete an important text from your iPhone while cleaning up your inbox. Fortunately, there are ways to recover deleted text messages on iPhone.
iPhone comes with built-in functionality to retrieve deleted messages. If you have an iCloud or iTunes backup, you can also restore lost messages from that backup. When none of the tricks work, you’ll need to use third-party data recovery software.
1. Recover deleted text messages within 30 days
iOS allows you to retrieve deleted text messages within 30 days. First you need to enable ‘Filter’ from the Settings menu. Check it out in action.
Step 1: Open Settings on your iPhone.
Step 2: Scroll to Messages.
Step 3: Select ‘Unknown & Spam’ from the Message Filtering menu. Enable SMS Filter from the following menu and enable the switch next to ‘Filter unknown senders’.
Next, follow the steps below to retrieve deleted text using the Messages app.
Step 1: Launch the Messages app on your iPhone. You’ll see Filters in the top left corner. Touch it.
Step 2: Select ‘Recently Deleted’.
Step 3: Tap the radio icon next to the message you want to recover.
Step 4: Click Recover in the lower right corner and check your messages in the main inbox.
The above trick works within 30 days of deleting the message. After a month, iOS will permanently delete those text messages.
If you’ve backed up messages in iTunes for Windows or Finder for Mac, use the steps below to restore a backup and restore deleted text messages.
2. Restore backup files on iPhone
Be careful when you restore backup files on iPhone. It will reset your iPhone to factory settings and restore the backup file with old data. That means it will delete all your recent data. The steps to restore a backup from Mac and Windows vary. Let’s start with Mac.
Mac
Step 1: Connect your iPhone to your Mac using a lightning cable.
Step 2: Open Finder.
Step 3: Select your iPhone under ‘Location’.
Step 4: Check your iPhone details in the right pane and select ‘Restore Backup’ in the Backup section.
Step 5: If you have multiple backup files, restore recent files on your iPhone.
Windows
Windows users need to restore iOS backup files using iTunes. This app is available in the Microsoft Store.
Step 1: Launch iTunes on Windows.
Step 2: Connect your iPhone to PC with lightning cable.
Step 3: Open iTunes and check your phone in the Summary menu.
Step 4: Select Restore Backup and select the relevant backup file from the following menu.
Your iPhone will reset to factory settings and restore the selected backup file on it. Once the process is complete, you should see your deleted texts in the Messages app.
Use a third-party data recovery app if you still don’t see your deleted messages in the backup file.
3. Use a data recovery app
Third-party data recovery apps are the ultimate solution to recover deleted messages on your iPhone. The web is full of such apps with claims to recover deleted content on your iPhone. However, you need to be careful when choosing any software to get back deleted text messages.
Not all software works as advertised and may not be able to recover deleted text messages on iPhone. We recommend using data recovery software that has a 30-day money-back guarantee. You can always request a refund if the recovery functions are not up to the mark.
4. Turn on iCloud message backup
If you don’t want to lose your messages in the future, you’ll need to turn on Messages backup in iCloud. Even if you lose your iPhone, you can always restore your iCloud backup on your new phone and get all your messages back.
Step 1: Open Settings on your iPhone.
Step 2: Select your profile.
Step 3: Tap iCloud.
Step 4: Select Show All.
Step 5: Turn on Messages backup from the following menu.
Backing up iCloud devices may require more space than 5 GB of free space. You need to sign up for one of the iCloud+ or Apple One plans to unlock more storage for your Apple account.
5. Check your deleted text messages on other Apple devices
If you have iCloud sync turned on on your other Apple devices like iPad or Mac, your messages will be synced across all your hardware. When you delete a text message on iPhone, you can also retrieve it from your iPad or Mac (if they’re not connected to the internet and haven’t deleted the message). You can open Messages on your iPad or Mac and recover deleted messages.
Get your deleted messages back instantly
The default Messages app is the best way to retrieve deleted text messages on iPhone. Which trick worked for you? Share your findings in the comments below.
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