How to recover deleted messages on iPhone

Here we go again. You just realized that you have accidentally deleted important messages on your Apple smartphone and you don't know how to get out of it. In fact, luckily for you, there are some methods for recover deleted messages on iPhone. 

Your biggest nightmare, then, could just turn into a bad experience. All you have to do is stay with us for a few minutes and read this guide to the end.

How to recover deleted messages on iPhone

Although most users use WhatsApp and in this case it is really easy recover messages deleted by mistake if you have made backups, it may still happen that this problem occurs when using SMS or iMessages.

Maybe these are just messages that go back in time and offer really pleasant memories, but why have to lose them forever if there is a possibility to recover them? So get comfortable and get ready to find out how to recover deleted messages on iPhone with complete peace of mind.

Before starting, however, we would like to tell you that it is a good idea make a backup of your data to always have them at your disposal in case of problems. Never forget that.

• Retrieve iPhone messages via applications
• Recover iPhone messages with iCloud backup
• Recover iPhone messages with iTunes backup
• Recover iPhone messages with PC or Mac software

Retrieve iPhone messages via applications

The first alternative to consider to recover deleted messages on iPhone is to use third-party applications, easily available and in some cases free. 

Always remember that, in any case, the success of this method is relegated to a rather limited time frame. In fact, deleted data can remain available until others overwrite it. Precisely for this reason it is essential to act in a timely manner.

For now we leave you a list of applications of this kind that do their job best. To download them, just click on the link that we have inserted in the name of the application.

• Phone Rescue
• Tenorshare iPhone Data Recovery
• Wondershare dr.fone
• Enigma

Recover iPhone messages with iCloud backup

If the deleted messages to be recovered are not very recent, it is very likely that with the previous method you will not be able to get over anything. In this case however there is a procedure that can come to your aid and plan to restore an iCloud backup your iPhone.

Before proceeding perhaps, it is best to make sure you have a backup available. To check, just enter settings, tap on your name at the top and choose the item iCloud. Here is the list of data that is archived. For messages it is sufficient that the dedicated voice is active.

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Now you just have to, if the messages to be recovered are really important, that restore your iPhone to the initial settings. To do this, open the settings and go to general, and then tap in succession on reset and initialize content and settings. Once the procedure is finished you can in fact choose the backup to restore from those available.

However, never forget that all the data you saved after the backup date will be deleted in this way. Therefore, act with caution and only if strictly necessary.

Recover iPhone messages with iTunes backup

Similarly, to recover deleted iPhone messages, you can also use iTunes. The mechanism is completely identical and even in this case you will lose the data after the backup that you are going to restore.

You can, just to be safe, make a new backup before restoring the old one, so that you always have the most up-to-date data available. To proceed this time you will have to connect your iPhone to the PC or Mac via the supplied Lightning cable.

Now open iTunes, click on the iPhone-shaped icon at the top left and choose restore from backup. Once the process has started you will have to wait for a few minutes until it is finished.

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Recover iPhone messages with PC or Mac software

As a last resort, unfortunately for a fee but essential if the previous ones have failed, you can decide to use one of the numerous software for recovering data on the iPhone available on the market. As always in these cases, since these programs offer a trial version, we advise you to test it to see if the messages you have deleted are actually visible within the memory.

To get started, we recommend that you try Dr.fone, complete and functional software that we have already had to try in the past. In this case the success rate is really high and in addition to the messages, you can also recover many other types of data. If you want to know more about this iPhone tool, we recommend that you take a look at the official site.

Alternatively, a really popular solution on the net for this type of problem is represented by Tenorshare, competing software than the one we mentioned earlier. Also in this case the success is guaranteed by the company and you can use a trial version to verify its correct functioning.

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As you have seen in this guide, recover deleted messages on iPhone it may not be the simplest operation in the world, but it is still possible in several variations. If you follow what we have enclosed in this article, it is very likely that you will be able to complete your task without any particular problems.

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