I got a new phone a few months back and some of my old text messages were no longer available. I have one old text message thread I would like to restore to my phone from iCloud, but I don't know how to do it. Can anyone walk me through how to do it?
iPhone 15 Plus, iOS 17
If you are using iCloud Syncing for your message and you've logged into that Apple ID on your new phone, All the extant messages are on your iPhone. Anything not there is gone. When syncing is turned on, messages are not part of an iCloud back up.
If you are not using iCloud Syncing for messages, the messages are part of your iCloud back up. However, restoring a back up is all or nothing. Restoring a backup will overwrite everything on your phone.
Restoring text messages from one person from iCloud
