i only have Edit Pins, Edit Name and Photo and Select Messages. No Edit. I need to retrieve a conversation I accidentally deleted.

I'm trying to retrieve a deleted text conversation. The instructions say to go to messages, edit. I don't have an edit in my messages. I only have Edit Pins, Edit Name and Photo and Select Messages. Any advice?

Posted on Nov 7, 2022 12:28 PM

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Posted on Nov 7, 2022 1:54 PM

one thing to note.. if you have Settings > Messages > Filter Unknown Senders switch turned on.. you won't see the Edit option up top of the message list. there will be a back button that looks like this: < Filters

Press that and out at the filter level, you'd have an option shown there for Recently Deleted


This is, of course, assuming that you are running iOS 16.. and, as muguy commented, the message/conversation was deleted while running iOS 16

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Nov 7, 2022 1:54 PM in response to dani02-12

one thing to note.. if you have Settings > Messages > Filter Unknown Senders switch turned on.. you won't see the Edit option up top of the message list. there will be a back button that looks like this: < Filters

Press that and out at the filter level, you'd have an option shown there for Recently Deleted


This is, of course, assuming that you are running iOS 16.. and, as muguy commented, the message/conversation was deleted while running iOS 16

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i only have Edit Pins, Edit Name and Photo and Select Messages. No Edit. I need to retrieve a conversation I accidentally deleted.

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