I lost some text for work on my wife’s phone.. the contact and the messages were deleted. Is there any way to recover them?

I lost some text for work on my other line that were deleted along with the contact over 30 days ago.. are they permanently gone,

iPhone 12, iOS 16

Posted on Jul 27, 2023 7:14 AM

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Jul 27, 2023 9:05 AM in response to Jwthrill61

Jwthrill61 wrote:

Thank you for your replies.. how could a lawyer access them then? You see that all the time

Verizon keeps message content for 240 hours. After that, they will still have records of the date and time of the SMS messages (not iMessages) and the numbers they were sent from/to. But they do not have the content. If Verizon receives a subpoena, they will provide that information. But, you can also get that yourself by logging into your account and looking at your detailed billing.


If you mean "you see that all the time" on television, that is simply a plot device and has little to do with real life.

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I lost some text for work on my wife’s phone.. the contact and the messages were deleted. Is there any way to recover them?

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