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How can you retrieve a deleted text message

iPad mini 5, iPadOS 14

Posted on Sep 16, 2021 8:40 AM

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Posted on Sep 16, 2021 8:52 AM

You cannot. Once deleted, messages are erased permanently.


If you have a device backup, and do NOT us messages in iCloud, you can restore your phone back to that backup (at the expense of anything new since then). https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT204184

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