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Blakemas Author

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How retrieve text messages

How retrieve deleted or lost text messages?

iPhone XS

Posted on Feb 3, 2020 5:59 PM

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Axel Foley

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Posted on Feb 3, 2020 6:06 PM

You are not going to be able to retrieve deleted text messages unless you restore your iPhone from a back up that you may have created. Note that if you restore your iPhone from a backup then the text messages will only be as current as the day and time your backup was created.

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Axel Foley

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Feb 3, 2020 6:06 PM in response to Blakemas

Axel F.

Feb 3, 2020 6:20 PM in response to Blakemas

If you're using iCloud Syncing for Messages, the messages are not part of your back up. Once you delete them, they're gone.

How retrieve text messages