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Retrieving texts

I backed up my ipad and iphone, then deleted some texts thinking i was going to be able to go back and retrieve any saved data including texts form a saved back up. That doesn't appear to be the way things work.


Is there a way to retrieve deleted texts from an iphone/ipad?

iPhone 6

Posted on Feb 12, 2019 11:38 AM

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Feb 13, 2019 6:28 AM in response to warrenfromeast york

Click the link in the post immediately above - are you using the "messages in icloud" synchronization feature or not? If you are, then deletions on any device are permanent in iCloud and across all connected devices - there is no method of recovery if using that feature to sync messages across all your devices.


If you do not use "messages in iCloud" then messages would be in your iCloud or iTunes backup file. You could possibly recover them (if the backup has not been updated since you deleted them) by restoring that backup to your device - that requires you to replace everything currently on the device with the contents of the backup, from whatever date it was last updated (a restore from backup is an all or nothing process).

Retrieving texts

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