I accidentally deleted the entire text history I had with a contact on my iphone.
But, I notice the history is still contained on my Apple Watch.
Is there a way to move, update, backup, transfer the data for the text for a contact on my Apple Watch, back to the iPhone?
Apple Watch 6 and iPhone 12 ver 14.6.
Hi akaGoodCatch,
Welcome to the Apple Support Communities!
We are happy to help with the issue you are having with wanting to restore a text message thread you only have on your Apple Watch. In order to be able to restore this conversation on to your phone, you would need to restore it from a backup from a date in which you had not yet deleted that conversation.
Learn how to Restore your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch from a backup here.
Cheers!
Hi akaGoodCatch,
Thank you for your follow up. Backups are located either in iCloud or on a computer. If you have a backup from a date before you deleted that conversation you are wanting to restore, you can restore the entire backup and that would restore all conversations from that date. Learn how to Locate backups of your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch here.
There is not a way for you to find one specific text message in a backup. You only have the option of restoring an entire backup, with entire message threads in that backup. This would also replace all data that is currently on your iPhone.
Have a nice day!
I feel that reply stops just short of being complete…
Restore a backup from icloud; which is where I keep backups?
Assuming so, how do I find this backup?
Is there a way to find just this particular text massage in icloud?
These extra insights will certainly be a complete view of the situation.
Thank You 🙏
Text message on Apple Watch to iphone
