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Recovering deleted text messages

Hey I deleted text messages that I had with somebody that meant a lot to me and I’m not sure how to recover them. How do I do this on an iPhone 8?

iPhone 8, iOS 13

Posted on Jul 3, 2020 3:30 PM

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Posted on Jul 3, 2020 3:38 PM

That really depends. If you have on or are using the Messages in iCloud feature, then once those messages are deleted, they are not recoverable. If you don't have this feature enabled, then you can recover them if you have a backup from when these messages were present.

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Recovering deleted text messages

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