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I have an iPhone 14 Pro Max phone and I need to retrieve permanently deleted text messages
iPhone 14 Pro Max, iOS 17
The ONLY hope you have would be to contact whoever you were messaging with and see if they would be willing to send the messages to you. Otherwise as the others are suggesting, permanent is permanent.
Permanent means what it says. Permanently deleted messages are gone.
They are gone, just like the message said when it asked you if you were sure you wanted to delete them.
retrieving permanently deleted text messages
