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My iPhone 8+ just deleted some very important text messages, how can I recover them?

Patty

Posted on Oct 3, 2022 05:45 PM

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sberman

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Posted on Oct 3, 2022 05:50 PM

Unless you house your messages in iCloud, they are saved on your iPhone backup. Restore that backup to retrieve the messages that were present when the backup was created.

Restore your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch from a backup - Apple Support

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sberman

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Oct 3, 2022 05:50 PM in response to PattySR

Unless you house your messages in iCloud, they are saved on your iPhone backup. Restore that backup to retrieve the messages that were present when the backup was created.

Restore your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch from a backup - Apple Support

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