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Recovery of deleted text message

How can you recover deleted text messages

iPhone 6s Plus

Posted on Aug 16, 2019 5:22 PM

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Posted on Aug 16, 2019 5:26 PM

If you were syncing messages with iCloud, you can't. If you weren't syncing messages with iCloud, you can restore from your backup. Restoring from a backup erases all data currently on your device. Any data newer than when the backup was made will be erased. A restore is an all or nothing restore. You can't access a backup and only restore certain files.


Backup - Restore your device from an iCloud or iTunes backup

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Aug 16, 2019 5:26 PM in response to cecelia178

If you were syncing messages with iCloud, you can't. If you weren't syncing messages with iCloud, you can restore from your backup. Restoring from a backup erases all data currently on your device. Any data newer than when the backup was made will be erased. A restore is an all or nothing restore. You can't access a backup and only restore certain files.


Backup - Restore your device from an iCloud or iTunes backup

Recovery of deleted text message

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