How to Retrieve Deleted iPhone Messages

You must have sent and received many important messages which are connected with your friends, family, lover, etc., what if you deleted these messages by accident? How can you get these messages back? Take it easy! If you want to recover deleted iPhone text messages which are important to you, do not miss this post! 

Actually, iPhone SMS recovery is not that difficult as you think. Here, I’d like to suggest you two methods to help you recover deleted messages from iPhone 7 (Plus)/SE/6S (Plus)/6/5S/5C/5.

Method 1: Retrieve Deleted iPhone Messages with Recovery Software

You can easily recover deleted/lost iPhone messages with a software called “Jihosoft iPhone Data Recovery”, which can also help you recover lost contacts, photos, videos, notes, WhatsApp, Viber, etc. from iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. In addition, this software can help you recover data without any backup, all you need is a few simple clicks. And this software is user-friendly, you do not need to worry about data leakage or something like that. Just follow the steps:

Step 1: Download and use this software on your computer; You will see as the screenshot shows:

Step 2: Connect your iPhone to computer and click “Start Scan”;

Step 3: You will see all the existing and deleted data shown on the left list; Choose the message items to preview and click “Recover” to recover deleted text messages you want.

Method 2: Recover Deleted Messages from iPhone with iTunes

Only if you have an iTunes backup before, can you use this method to recover the deleted/lost text messages on your iPhone. And please note that this method will overwrite your existing iPhone data, you will only get the exactly same data as your backup files. That is, all your existing data will be replaced by your previous iTunes backup. If you have created new data after your message loss, you’ll lose that part of data. If you accept this cruel truth, you can recover your lost text messages according to these steps:

Step 1: Connect your iPhone to computer and open iTunes;


Step 2: Tap the iPhone icon appeared on the left side of the corner;

Step 3: Click “Restore Backup”. After you complete this process successfully, all the previous data you have backed up before will replace the existing data on your phone. It may take a few minutes, which depends on the storage your data takes.