Backing up and restoring text messages back to iPhone

So I have used WonderShares recovery software, and it did find most if not all of the deleted text messages, however none of the picture attachments. The texts where deleted this morning by accident, and the texts where recieved last night, is there any way to recover these picture attachments as i had not yet saved to my camera roll.

Did you find a solution to this problem? I am trying to restore sms to my iPhone 4 with ios 7, as something is corrupt in my software which disabled bluetooth and the only way around it is to restore to factory settings, but I need to keep my sms!

try using iExplorer or iTools to do that

Thanks for your reply lewfrom.

From what I can see those programs only allow you to extraxt sms, but not put them back on the phone once it has been restored?

Correct. There is no way to copy SMS from from the messages app on one phone to the messages app on another, EXCEPT to restore a complete phone backup to the 2nd phone. This will overwrite everything on the 2nd phone.

Thanks guys. I can't restore from my backup because it is corrupt and causing my bluetooth to not work

I assume by "corrupt" you mean that the backup has broken bluetooth settings stored inside of it? Let me know if that is not the case.

If you really want to restore that backup, but the bluetooth settings are standing in your way, you could restore and then do a Reset Network Settings from the Settings App -> Reset. If just resetting the network settings doesn't help, then you could do a Reset All Settings.

No, it's not possible. However, you could try the computer apps PhoneView (Mac) or TouchCopy (Mac & PC):

http://www.ecamm.com/mac/phoneview/

http://www.wideanglesoftware.com/touchcopy/index.php

It wouldn't be automatic but you'd still have archived copies of your messages.

Best of luck.

RE: Kelly Wilkerson

Yeah that is what happened, something in my restore file caused the bluetooth to not work, and I know this is what happened as it works fine when restored to factory settings. I have tried both a network setting reset and a reset all settings.

The strangest thing happened though, it may have been update 8.1.3, but the bluetooth just randomly started working one day. No idea how or why, but I was just checking it (again) and it picked up the car stereo!

Your text messages should be still stored in iTunes backup file, only purchased items like music, podcast were sync through iTunes...so it is possible to restore text messages back to iPhone via iTunes backup on your computer. Or you can sign in your iCloud account get your lost SMS back.

Back up and restore your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch using iCloud or iTunes - Apple Support

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My iPhone IOS is corrupt so says Apple & Verizon and no way to restore without deleting all my text messages. Not acceptable. There has to be a solution... Looks like this post is "Branched to a new discussion" but when I click on the link to go to that discussion it says "Unauthorized". Is anyone finding any answers to this by chance?

I don't think responding to a post made 5 years ago will get any answers you might be looking for.

Kalenarts.com wrote:

My iPhone IOS is corrupt so says Apple & Verizon and no way to restore without deleting all my text messages. Not acceptable.

Okay.

There has to be a solution...

There is. Restore the iPhone from your current backup.

Looks like this post is "Branched to a new discussion" but when I click on the link to go to that discussion it says "Unauthorized".

Some posts were deleted/moved by the moderators as they were likely violations of the Terms of Use for Apple Support Communities.

Hi. I had this issue and managed to restore my old messages database from an old backup. The solution walkthrough can be found here http://www.iphonebackupextractor.com/blog/2014/nov/11/restore-sms-messages-whats app-notes-call-history/