Really? Mine at random just deleted and I've seen other people with the same experience. Contacted apple support spent about an hour and all they told me was 'As an advice for future references keep your phone on automatic back up' nothing else for an hour wasted.
Thanks, but I've already checked all of this and it was set on forever so that must've not been the issue. Odd thing about it all is that when I checked on storage used it says 1.74gb used on messages yet I open messages and there's only messages from 1 day which is almost impossible to take that much space within a day span when you've only texted 3 people and not throughout the entire day.
FWIW. I did not experience any random message deletions on any of my Apple devices. That is true for eMail, iMessage, and SMS text messages.
I don't use Messages, so I'm not sure if this will still work, but I found this:
http://www.solveyourtech.com/how-to-stop-the-iphone-from-automatically-deleting- text-messages/
How much storage do you have available?
About 2 gb available
Before or after they disappeared? Do you have a backup from before this happened?
My messages have been deleted for no apparent reason, anyone else?
