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How do I recover a deleted text message conversation on the iPhone XR?

iPhone XR

Posted on Aug 12, 2019 2:53 PM

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Posted on Aug 12, 2019 2:58 PM

If you have iCloud sync for texts there is no way to recover it. If you don't have iCloud sync you can restore an iTunes or iCloud backup made before the conversation was deleted. Note that this will overwrite everything on your phone, not just the missing message.

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