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Today at 4pm I was on my iphone 11 chatting and somehow with my check I deleted all of my imessages except for 2. I looked and icloud said there was a backup done this morning. I hooked up to my computer at work because my battery was low. I reset my iphone and then used the icloud backup. My imessages did not come back. I have lots of data space left on icloud. Any suggestions.
thanks
Karen
Your messages did not return because they were deleted (accidentally as you mentioned) as you were using messages in iCloud - Keep all your messages in iCloud - Apple Support. As you were using this and accidentally deleted the messages, they are gone forever, I'm afraid.
If you weren't using messages in iCloud, you could've restored from a backup to retrieve those messages.
Your messages did not return because they were deleted (accidentally as you mentioned) as you were using messages in iCloud - Keep all your messages in iCloud - Apple Support. As you were using this and accidentally deleted the messages, they are gone forever, I'm afraid.
If you weren't using messages in iCloud, you could've restored from a backup to retrieve those messages.
icloud backup did retore deleted imessages
