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How do you get deleted text back

How do I get old text messages back

iPhone SE, iOS 14

Posted on Oct 8, 2021 12:09 PM

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Posted on Oct 8, 2021 12:16 PM

You can look in the Recently Deleted Folder. You can check to see if they were synched to your iCloud account or if they were included in a recent backup. If not in those places, they are probably gone for good.

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Oct 8, 2021 12:16 PM in response to Hazen23

You usually don’t. If you sync texts to iCloud (Settings/[your name]/iCloud - Messages ON) then there is no way to get them back. If you don’t sync and you have a backup of the phone that contains the texts you can restore that backup to the phone, but that will overwrite everything on the phone, not just those texts. The other option is to ask the recipient to send the text back to you.

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