iOS 6 deleted my text messages and iMessages
When I downloaded the new iOS 6 software, it deleted all of my text messages and iMessages. Is there anyway I can get them back?
iPhone 4, iOS 6
When I downloaded the new iOS 6 software, it deleted all of my text messages and iMessages. Is there anyway I can get them back?
iPhone 4, iOS 6
If you backed up your phone (either to your computer or iCloud) as is STRONGLY suggested before any software update, you should be able to restore your text messages and iMessages from your backup.
I did do a back up before my update, but they're all gone 😟
I'm having the same problem, backed up, restored from backup, and lost all text and recent calls log among other various settings. This never happened in previous updates.
yea seems the same thing has just happened to me aswell!
same here! ugh...
well, you think Apple would fix those bugs before they release the darm thing? I guess I should wait?
I'm gonna downgrade back to 5.1.1 before apple stops signing it and restore from an iCloud backup from last night hopefully that will work. I'll keep you updated in the meantime I suggest others do the same and don't let iTunes delete your 5.1.1 ipsw file
I'm experiencing the same thing. I tried to restore my backup but i got an error message saying that I don't have enough space to restore. What do I need to do?
How do you downgrade to iOS 5.1.1?
I had the text/iMessage problem too (everything else was fine), and when I tried to restore to the backup I created before updating, I got an error message that said there wasn't enough space on my iPhone to restore from backup.
To downgrade right now if your on a Mac go to your trash and look for a file that has 5.1.1 in it and ipsw at the end move that to the desktop then plug in your phone to iTunes and while holding the option key hit the restore button in iTunes and it will bring up a dialog to find a file just point it to that ipsw file you copied to your desktop and you should be good to go. This will only work while apple is still signing that version which could be anywhere from another day or another 10 min.
Ah, I'm on a PC running Windows 7...
So that's not going to work. Thanks for trying to help, though. 🙂
Downgrade just finished and it worked got all my text and everything back. Do a Lil more searching on where the ipsw files are located and how to downgrade on win7 but like I said I would do it ASAP. Hope this helps a few and hopefully they get it figured out before my 5 shows up on fri
I hate going back to older version with all time lost to upgrade. When Apple is going to send a fix to work out these and retrieve the sms?
In the race to get software out and be on top of the game, I feel like Apple (and others) are taking too much time away from an appropriate amount of QA time. I mean virtually everyone uses their phone for SMS and IMessage, this should not happen.
I backed up my phone before I updated to iOS 6 as well, and I can't seem to retrieve my old messages, which have important data on them that I need. Is there any other way to get them back?
iOS 6 deleted my text messages and iMessages