recovered messages not showing up in chat

Hi there!

I'd recommend reviewing the steps in Recover deleted messages on iPhone - Apple Support.

You may need to Restart your iPhone and Update your iPhone or iPad.

Jack

I just opened a very long message and it skipped off my screen. How do I get the message back to finish reading it?

Sure. I just happened to glance at my iPad a few minutes later and the recovered message was there. I opened it and deleted it a second time. It never did show up on my phone. I am able to produce the same effect with other messages.

Good luck to you.

I agree with the OP. The same thing is happening to me with iOS 16.5.1. The recovery procedure is quite simple to follow, yet messages do not return to the ‘messages’ list; they just disappear from the ‘recently deleted’ list. The workaround (for me) is to look at messages on a second device, where the recovered messages DO show up. Seems like a refresh issue with the first device.

I followed the steps Apple Support steps to recover some "Recently Deleted" messages from today but they have not re-appeared yet. Now the messages don't appear in either my messages list OR in my "Recently Deleted" list. Restarting my iPhone did not help. Very frustrating.

So I contacted Apple Support—and this worked for me but it took forever—but all I had to do was sync my messages to iCloud and everything showed up again! Either that or my wifi just got better… I’m not sure what to do if you don’t have the iCloud space though.

How do I find messages that was was sent to me but I can’t remember which app it was on

hi could you help me I don’t know how to sync my messages to iCloud and I can’t find this on Apple support