Keeping Text Messages forever
I noticed that the history of text messages with my wife goes back to only one year back... How can I keep my text messages forever
I noticed that the history of text messages with my wife goes back to only one year back... How can I keep my text messages forever
I have the setting in my iPhone to keep messages forever. But they’re only being kept a year or so. Is there any way to retrieve older messages? It’s very important.
I have the setting in my iPhone to keep messages forever. But they’re only being kept a year or so. Is there any way to retrieve older messages? It’s very important.
Hi, Not sure if you have the same issue as I did Kate, but this solved for me;
The solution that worked for me, at this point I had a full backup, was to navigate and select 'Reset All Settings':
Settings > General > Transfer or Reset iPhone > Reset > Reset All Settings
After performing the reset, it took a few moments and the message thread history started loading.
Quick Tips:
Moderators: I am sorry for my poor spelling of Disappearing!
Full Post > iPhone Messages Disappearing, but 'Keep Messages Forever' enabled.
My messages are set to last for ever
however I went back to review a message four months ago and cannot find it
This is strange. I use the same setting and I have messages back from 2020.
I do prune manually the messages I don't want to retain so my message list is not that long. Another thing is that I do not synchronize Messages over iCloud. Could these be some reasons ? I don't know.
As to the message that have been deleted, they could still be in the "Recently Deleted" folder if you use a recent version of iOS. In Messages, tap Edit (top left) and select "Show Recently Deleted". From there you could be able to recover these messages.
I have 20k messages stored in my iCloud . I’ve tried everything to get them all back and nothing works . Apple makes things ridiculously complicated and their tech is useless. I had to hire a private investigator to get all my old texts back off my own iCloud account.
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Hello castan3da,
On your iPhone, go to Settings > Messages and set "Keep Messages" to Forever.
How do you get access to the saved messages. No matter what I try nothing works!
Are you out of memory on your iPhone? If memory is an issue, messages have nowhere to be saved to.
Settings > General > iPhone Storage
How much memory is available on your phone?
Keeping Text Messages forever