Need to recover deleted text message without iCloud and iTunes backups

My wife deleted a text message off her Sprint iPhone 6 with the latest iOS9. The iTunes backup is too recent to try and recover from and she doesn't have the iCloud backup for her messages. She mainly needs the phone number. I've tried Wondershare's Dr. Fone for iOS and PhoneRescue, but have only able to get a partial recovery and not able to get the phone number out of Tenorshare's iPhone Data Recovery program. Is there any other program I can try?

Bill Rudloff

Posted on Feb 27, 2016 6:06 PM

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Oct 30, 2016 1:54 PM in response to sberman

HHow would I go about getting the records from my carrier for deleted messages

i bought my sister an iPhone and have now upgraded to a newer model. Once I swapped her old one out to the new one I deleted her texts messages so I could use it for my daughter to listen to music. She now realized there were some texts mmessages she needs from her old phone that has now been erased. She didn't back her old phone up because it was only 8Gb and there wasn't any room to update or back up because of the memory issue. Is there a way to retrieve these messages without a backup? Maybe a safe app or a third party download software to computer. Thank you in advance kind of desperate here.... I feel awful but I thought she was done with the old phone.

Oct 30, 2016 2:20 PM in response to jjmaa

There is no way to recover deleted texts, unless the person at the other end saved them.

The carrier will have a log of when they were sent or received, but not the contents.


I don't accept that she couldn't back it up; a backup takes no space on the phone itself. It could have been backed up to iTunes on a computer or to iCloud: About backups in iCloud and iTunes - Apple Support


As iCloud backup is almost automatic (you just have to turn it on) she may have a backup that she doesn't know about.

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