iPhone text messages disappeared

Happened to me too? What’s up with this? I have lost all threads from 10/17 to 12/4. Texts received after 12/4 show previous texts from 03/20. So where are the texts from March of 2020 to 12/03/21? Apple please help. This is causing me major grief.

I have the iPhone 13pro and I received an email that my iCloud storage was almost full. I went to my iCloud storage and the toggle for messages to be saved on iCloud was off, and when I tried to turn it on it said iMessage and iCloud accounts don’t match. Now I have lost at least 4 text message threads!? How can I get these messages back??

Same problem, and I didn’t have ‘Forever’ selected, but never realised this was an option. Somewhat unfair on those with attached personal memories or business-critical correspondence.

I need those text messages back… Apple, or anyone here, what is the simplest, quickest way to do this without using a third-party app? If I have to use one, which is recommended? TIA

My text messages disappeared as well. I was also trying to log in to my credit card and it wanted to send a code to my phone. I went to click on the message and it disappeared. This is not helpful at all.

Anyone know what is going on?

Forever is on in settings and for new messages that wouldn't be the issue.

I have the same problem today!

I can see the new message in SMS list, and I can read a few lines. But when I try to open it, it crashes and disappears...???

When I open SMS list again, the message no longer appears....

I haven't found a solution yet.

I have just discover the same problem with one very important contact where all the messages history is completely gone except one message from a week ago, iPhone iCloud settings are set forever. When I check to see if my messages are safely been backed up to iCloud I see that messages is turned off, when I turn it on I get a message saying “messages in iCloud not available because iCloud and iMessages are different” .This is a new iPhone 13 just bought in January and my iCloud is set to backup every night when the phone is plugged in and connected to Wi-Fi, really hope some one can cast some light on this issue because I desperately need this info back

Well , my setting is on “forever “ , I have not done a update , and this is happened before so , I’m not sure what’s going on …. On my wife’s phone ( which we are together on this particular chat ) all the messages are there ….sooo , any ideas ?

thanks

I’ve called and talked to apple support and escalated to supervisor level...long story short Apple stated it’s our problem and they have no solution

BTW – I am using an iPhone SE…

The same thing is happening to me on an iPhone 6S. Help!

I have an iPhone 11 and this has been happening to me. I just noticed it yesterday tho.

Does anyone know how to get a response from Apple? How to get their eyes on this chain? I do not know how to do this.

Geesh - well... Thank you for your efforts Cary Reese!

Just happened on an iphone 11 pro. Tried restarting and toggling icloud/sync settings and no luck so far. This is unacceptable!

Did all that, did not work unfortunately.