Restore text messages

It looks like messages was ON. I reset my phone, then backed up from my backup yesterday to restore everything on my phone. Everything looks good so far EXCEPT now all my messages are gone. It doesn’t say it is downloading them or anything. Did I just completely ruin my chance of the messages restoring?

Ok so here is where I’m at and I’m not sure what to do. I reset my phone, restored from my last backup (yesterday), and at first when opening my messages it said messages were downloading. I’m connected to Wi-Fi. I plugged in my phone to charge it, and now it says “uploading to iCloud paused”. I’m attaching a picture. I’m so lost and afraid to plug my phone back in because I’m not sure if it will allow my messages to continue to download. What does this mean? If I plug my phone back in, will my messages continue to DOWNLOAD from my last backup?

I’m ok with the deleted messages not being included in my backup. I just don’t know why all my other messages haven’t restored (the ones I did not delete). I don’t know why they will not restore or how to fix it.

Ok I see what you’re saying. I’ve always had messages toggled on though with iCloud every single time I’ve gotten a new phone or restored it, and they always restore to whenever I did my last backup. I just don’t know why now all of a sudden they won’t restore when I didn’t do anything differently. I appreciate you replying.

You’ll have to scroll all the way down on the photo.