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Recovering deleted iMessages

Hi all,


I deleted an iMessage thread with a friend and realize that there was information that I needed from it. If she still has our iMessage thread active, is there a way for her to "share" it with me? Essentially I'm looking for a way to recover deleted iMessages (can't restore it from iCloud, since I realized my iMessages were not backing up to iCloud previously).


iPhone XS Max, iOS 13

Posted on Jul 9, 2020 6:14 PM

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Posted on Jul 9, 2020 6:15 PM

If you deleted from iMessages, then it is gone, but you can ask your friend to take screenshots of the important parts of the message (from her end) and resend to you.

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Recovering deleted iMessages

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