If you’ve deleted a message, text or iMessage, and want to restore it, just follow the few simple steps in this article.
I thought that everyone knew this, as I’ve gone years without anyone asking me if it’s possible to recovered deleted messages, to being asked three times in a week.
How to recover deleted text / iMessages on your iPhone
1) Open the ‘Messages’ app
2) Tap the ‘Edit’ button at the top left of the screen
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3) Select ‘Show Recently Deleted’
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4) Now you can either select ‘Recover all’ at the lower right of the screen, or you can select the message/s you want to recover and tap ‘Recover’ at the lower right of the screen.
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That’s it, the recovered messages will now show in the main list in ‘Messages’. You can also if you like, delete these messages so they cannot be recovered.