I can’t retrieve my text messages on icloud

Hi Kay2001-60,

We see you came here from Locate backups of your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch - Apple Support. To clarify, you wouldn't be able to download messages by themselves. You'd either need to enable iCloud for Messages as outlined in Set up iCloud for Messages on all your devices - Apple Support to sync messages on your devices; or restore an entire backup from the device as outlined in Restore your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch from a backup - Apple Support.

We hope this helps.

Cheers.

Kay2001-60 Said:

“I can’t retrieve my text messages on icloud“

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Finding Specific Filetypes from iCloud:

To search for specific filetypes in iCloud (i.e. all message files), you would perform the following...

How this Works:

You would...

1. Plug in: the External Hard Drive to a Mac.
2. Download: all of iCloud to the External Hard Drive (using my user tip)
3. Create: a folder on the External Hard Drive
4. Search: for the images by filetype (enter the extension in the top-right corner of the Finder window).
5. Drag & Drop: all of these found item to the folder (in step two)
6. Move: the rest of the download to the Trash
7. Delete: the files from the Trash
8. Eject: the hard drive in a Finder window.