There are a handful of apps out there that claim to be able to retrieve deleted messages. While there is no Apple-supported way of recovering text messages without a backup, there’s still a chance you’ll be able to with the help of third-party apps.

Choose Summary from the menu on the left.Ĭan you recover deleted text messages without a backup?.

Click on the phone icon in the top left-hand corner.

If you’re restoring text messages from an iTunes backup:

Note: Before you restore your iPhone you should verify the last time it was backed up to iCloud by going to Settings > Your Name > iCloud > iCloud Backup. When prompted to restore your iPhone, choose iCloud Backup.After a few minutes, your iPhone will reboot.On your iPhone go to Settings > General > Reset > Erase All Content and Settings.To retrieve a deleted text from an iCloud backup: Whether you backed up your iPhone to iCloud or iTunes, you can recover texts from those backups, just in different ways. Recover deleted texts on iPhone from a backup So, unfortunately, restoring your phone won’t be of any help. Another thing to keep in mind is that any texts that came in after your most recent backup, won’t have been backed up. While the backup is the most secure way to recover those messages, it does require restoring your phone, meaning you’ll lose anything new on your phone since your last backup. Retrieving the messages you’ve deleted is not unlike recovering deleted photos - it can be done either with a backup or directly from the device with the help of a third-party app. How to retrieve deleted messages on iPhone Select the attachment you want to delete.Go to Settings > General > iPhone Storage > Messages.If you’re not getting the prompt to Review Large Attachments, you can still review your attachments. Tap the Trash icon in the upper right corner.Select the attachments you want to delete.Go to Settings > General > iPhone Storage > Review Large Attachments.

If you don’t want to part with the messages themselves, but want to free up storage and generally unclutter your iPhone, another option for you might be deleting your message attachments. However, a little later in the article, we’ll go over how to recover and restore old messages. Unfortunately, once you delete a message or conversation from your iPhone, there’s no simple way to search for and find it.

Finally, tap the Trash icon in the lower left corner.

Tap and hold on the message until the menu pops up.

Open the conversation this message is in.

If you only want to delete a single message: How to delete a single message, not the whole thread

On the Conversations screen, tap Edit in the top left-hand corner.

If you want to delete multiple threads, it’s quicker to do the following:

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