Recover deleted text messages on your iPhone without the need to restore

This might surprise you, but if you ever wanted to find and restore a deleted text message on iOS 15, the only way to do it is to first hope that you have to support with this specific text, and then restore a file Iphone. A very complex and time consuming process, and should be an easy task.

Fortunately, that is now simplified thanks to iOS 16.

Instead of dealing with restoring a backup, you can now find and restore deleted texts on your device in the Messages app with just a few clicks. The process is simple, but you need to know where to look before you can recover any deleted text messages. Here’s how.

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First find your deleted text messages

All your deleted text messages can be found in the Messages app. To find your messages in the trash, open Messages and tap filters option at the top left of your text topics. Here you can filter your text messages by known senders, unread messages, and more. However, the choice we want is Recently Deleted.

A list of recent text messages will appear, showing phone numbers or contacts, the number of messages and the days left until final deletion. This will include both entire threads and individual texts that have been deleted. However, you will only be able to see (and recover) deleted messages if they were deleted in the last 30 days, so act relatively quickly.

Also, you can’t see the actual messages themselves so you will have to get them back by recognizing the contact name or phone number. Once recovered, you will then be able to read the scripts.

Then recover your deleted text messages

If you want to restore a text message, tap the string or message so that it is selected, tap Recovery at the bottom right, then tap Message recovery in the popup that appears. You can also recover all deleted text messages at once – don’t select any message and just click restore all.

Your recovered text messages will appear in sequential order from the time they were sent or received, so you may have to scroll a bit through existing text messages to find them, especially if they are outdated and you have a significant amount of new messages cluttering up your inbox.

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