How to Retrieve Deleted Text Messages on iPhone

“I deleted all my text messages on my iPhone 4S, but I didn’t mean to! Is there any way to recover it or get access to those messages again? Thanks!”

If you often use your iPhone to send or receive messages, you are likely to encounter the same trouble. Actually, many iPhone users accidentally deleted all text messages, and then realized the mistake they did - asking for help to recover their deleted messages. Retrieving deleted text messages on iPhone can be difficult, but it is possible. Here we’d like to introduce two ways to recover deleted text messages from iPhone 5S, 5C, 5, 4S, 4, and 3GS.

Solution 1: Recover Deleted Text Messages from iPhone Backup If you have a previous backup saved with iTunes, you should be able to restore iPhone text messages from the backup. 1. Open iTunes. Go to Edit > Preferences > Devices to prevent iPhone

from syncing automatically. 2. Use USB cable to connect your iPhone to computer and wait it to be

recognized. 3. Go to File > Devices, and then choose “Restore from Backup” to

restore iPhone to iTunes backup.

Tip: If you have ever backed up your iPhone to iCloud, you can restore deleted text messages on iPhone from iCloud backup. Please note that, iCloud doesn’t backup SMS in all territories, and for all phone operators.

Solution 2: Retrieve Deleted Text Messages on iPhone without Backup If you have no backup, you will need to use a third-party tool to recover deleted text messages from iPhone directly. Here Jihosoft Mobile Recovery for iOS is recommended. It works with iPhone 5S/5C/5/4S/4/3GS to recover deleted or lost messages, contacts, photos, videos, notes, WhatsApp, and more. You can directly connect your iPhone to PC and count on this iPhone Text Message Recovery tool to scan the device and get all your deleted messages back.

Comparison of the Two Methods: To avoid losing your important iPhone data, regularly backup is really necessary and helpful. Even if your iPhone was lost, stolen, broken or crashed, you are still able to retrieve deleted text messages on iPhone by extracting from iTunes or iCloud backups. However, restoring your iPhone to previous backups will mean losing more recent messages, contacts, and other changes.

Software options can access messages that have been deleted but not yet overwritten and you can selectively recover the data you want. Besides, you can combine Jihosoft iPhone SMS Recovery with iTunes backup. The software can access your iTunes backups and allows you to recover the messages from earlier backups without deleting the more current information already on your iPhone.