How to Retrieve Deleted Text Messages on iPhone?

Sometimes, the text messages stored on your iPhone are important or meaningful to you. So you will not want them just disappear on your iPhone. So how to retrieve deleted text messages once you delete one or more by accident, or just lose them in some way you don’t even know. My suggestion is you need to act fast because there is a chance to get them back. Deleted or lost SMS messages are recoverable as long as they are not overwritten by an app update, file download or something like that. So once that happens to you, don’t hesitate to grab your phone and computer, and follow below to learn how to recover deleted text messages on iPhone.




If you are addicted to the traditional messaging system - text message, you might have the habit of deleting useless messages on your device because as you send and receive messages, the messages take up more and more storage of your iPhone. If this continues, your iPhone would slow down. But It's very likely for you to delete some important messages by mistake, which seems unrecoverable for most of the users. With the right tool and right guide, you can restore deleted iPhone messages, very easily.



In general, there are 3 ways to recover deleted iPhone text messages: restore from iTunes, restore from iCloud and retrieve from iPhone directly. Below is how to retrieve deleted text messages using these 3 methods.

How to Restore Deleted Text Messages from iTunes

If you have backed up your iPhone to iTunes library, you can restore your deleted text messages using iTunes backup.



1 Start iTunes on your computer, and make sure you are using the latest version of iTunes.

2 Connect iPhone to your computer via USB cable, and iTunes should detect your iPhone, if not, select your iPhone in iTunes.

3 Now choose 'Restore backup' and select the backup that you want, you can check that by size and date.
4 All the data you previously backed up will now replace the data on your phone. It will take a few minutes. As long as you haven't backed up subsequent to deleting those text messages, they should now appear on your iPhone.

How to Restore Deleted Text Messages from iCloud

If you have backed up your iPhone before losing text messages on your iPhone, you can restore your iPhone with the iCloud backup.

Step 1: Go to Settings > General > Reset and then tap on “Erase all Contents and Settings.” This will erase all data and take you to the setup screen to allow you to restore the device.

Step 2: Follow the on-screen instructions on the setup screen until you reach “Apps and Data” and then choose “Restore from iCloud Backup.”

Step 3: Sign in to iCloud using your Apple ID and then select a relevant backup. Stay connected to a Wi-Fi network to complete the process.



After a while, you should find the deleted text messages on your iPhone. But you should know that restoring iPhone with backup will overwrite al currentl data on your iPhone and you are not able to choose to backup specific data.

How to Retrieve Deleted Text Messages from iPhone

If restoring iPhone with iTunes or iCloud backup cannot meet your needs to regain only deleted iPhone text messages, iOS Data Recovery, on the contrary, gives you the flexibility to restore data selectively, without using backup. And here is how to retrieve deleted text messages from iPhone.



1 Start iOS Data Recovery on your computer.

2 Connect your iPhone to the computer via USB data cable, and the program should recognize your device.

3 Choose “Recover from iOS Device” from the 3 recovery modes and start the scanning process.

4 Select deleted text messages from the scanning results. Normally the deleted items are displayed in red.

5 Click “Recover” and the program will retrieve deleted text messages that you selected from your iPhone.