Access to texts from 8 years ago

CuriousGeorge0821 Said:

"Access to texts from 8 years ago: If I get a subpoena, can I get access to my deleted texts from 8 years ago? It’s for a court case."

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Recovering Deleted Messages:



Perhaps. But, save a few, and try locating these on your own...

What to Consider:

A. Restore from Today's Backup:

Restore your iPhone from a backup of it that contains these messages and is of the same iOS from 8 years ago, and you could recover them.

B. Check Messages App:

If messages was enabled on your iPhone along with your Apple computer, then check and see if the Messages app is enabled on your Mac to see if it exists in it. You'd start up your Mac, not connecting to the Internet, and open the Massages app. Then proceed from there with retrieving it. Important: Be certain you do not connect to the Internet while booting up, as syncing would delete it. So, power off your router to avoid the connection.

C.  Check your Carrier’s Site:

Log in to your Carrier’s site, seeing if you can view a history there. Doing so, I can see a call log going back 90 days —but not a text messages log.

Not without the extraordinary circumstances of both no Apple Messages iCloud, and having saved eight-year-old backups.

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