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recover imessages from ipad to mac iMessages

Oh golly! I have deleted an entire discussion on imessage from my mac. I would like to recover this - it is on my ipad still. It was on my iphone but I just restored iphone and I appear to have lost a few weeks worth of imessages on that now!! So my ipad is the way to go - and I now want to bring it back to imessage on my mac and on iphone. Can anyone hlep.? I have tried a few additional softwares - but they transfer the files as a txt file - doesn't go back into imessage. Distressed - not only stressed!! 😟

iMac, OS X Mountain Lion, 'Stressed Mum' not Mac technician!

Posted on Jun 12, 2013 11:46 AM

35 replies

Jun 5, 2014 1:34 AM in response to Stressed Mum

As I know, If the iMessages deleted, it still store in iPhone/iPad, if it isn't overwritten by other data, you can recover the deleted iMessages, you can search in google to find a tool to help you, I holp you make a backup with iTunes or iCloud, then follow this from Apple: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1766

Sep 2, 2014 2:44 AM in response to Stressed Mum

There are many way to recover deleted imessages. But I prefer to recover them from iTunes or iCloud.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1414

Sep 2, 2014 2:46 AM in response to Stressed Mum

hi my i phone is lost so what is poses for my contacts rec

Nov 7, 2014 3:35 PM in response to Stressed Mum

Hi, everyone.

I have a similar situation here. The difference is that I completely restore my MacBook from a backup which was made last week. So this week's message history in the Messages application is gone. But it's still in my iPhone. Is there a way for me to recover these messages from my iPhone?

Since I don't have a newer backup, using Time Machine to restore is not going to work here.

Thanks for your help!

MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012), OS X Yosemite 10.10, iPhone 6(iOS 8.1).

Nov 8, 2014 11:32 AM in response to leohuntnyc

Hi,

They are gone.

The text and formatting that displays the iMessages on the iPhone are just that:- info for the Messages app.

Saved Chats on the Mac are in the .ichat format or in the case of the Chat window (main Messages window) they are stored in the three chat.db items.

Both of these cannot not be read by the iOS app (if trying to go the other way).

The iMessages are pushed to the devices.

Once on the devices they are deleted from the iMessages server. In fact there are technical differences between the iOS "version" and the Mac one and sent out from different servers within the iMessages cluster.

Basically you only have them if you keep them but the iOS and Mac versions are not interchangeable.

7:32 pm Saturday; November 8, 2014

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 G4/1GhzDual MDD (Leopard 10.5.8)
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recover imessages from ipad to mac iMessages