Q: All text messages deleted, except for one
Woke up this morning to find that all text messages from my phone had mysteriously been deleted, except for one - and in this message, the entire thread was gone except for the most recent text (presumably received after the mass deletion). Of course I don't have a recent backup, not even with iCloud, but the strange thing is that not even 3rd party apps such as Phone Rescue have been able to find any record of my texts.
The only thing I did out of the ordinary last night was plug in my phone to my computer to charge. I purposefully didn't sync it with iTunes or Photos, since they make my computer run very slowly and I was watching a video at the same time.
I had a chat conversation with an Apple support person, and they were unable to find a solution to the problem - they advised me to set up iCloud to make sure things were backing up, but even then, they said there's no way for messages to back up to iCloud.
Has this happened to anyone before?
iPhone 5s, iOS 9.3.2
Posted on Aug 25, 2016 6:08 AM
