Sharing in Find My caused deleted texts

tkatty Said:

"Sharing in Find My caused deleted texts: Hi All. I just noticed that when I shared my location with someone, seven years of text history was deleted somehow. Any ideas why this happened and/or how I can get the messages back?"

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Thank you for the screenshot.

Recovering Deleted Messages:

What to Consider:

A. Restore from Today's Backup:

Restore your iPhone from a backup of it that contains these messages, 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. Recently Deleted:

For iOS16 and later, see if they are in the Recently Select folder.

Elsewise, if they're gone, they're gone. That's just the way it is :(

tkatty Siad:

"Thanks to @TheLittles. I figured they're not recoverable. Sucks that this Apple glitch lost my stuff. :("

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You are welcome. Kinda sticks, I know . So, learn from this, and from here on out setup and use Messages on Mac. In doing so, you can have something to recover them from. Set Up Messages on Mac - Apple Support