How can i recover deleted text messages?

How can I recover deleted text messagres?

Generally, you can't but... try sending a text to the person and see if some of their conversation(s) returns.  I've seen this happen a few times.

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  • How can I recover deleted text messages from my iPhone 5 using my iphone 5

    I deleted some of my text messages and now I need them back.

    Did you back up the phone before deleting the messages?  If so, restore the backup.  If not, they're gone. 
    Don't trust web sites that claim to have software that recovers without a backup - they are scams and identity theft sites.

  • How do I recover deleted text messages from my ipad mini?

    How do I recover deleted text messages from my ipad mini?

    You can try looking at the previous discussions on the right side of the page under the heading "More Like This".
    Here is one place that claims to be able to do it. You have to send them your device.
    RECOVER DELETED MESSAGES FROM IPHONE TEXT CONTACTS PHOTOS SMS VIDEO PICTURES
    BTW, you posted in the iPod touch forum.

  • HT1688 How can I retrieve deleted text messages

    How can I recover deleted text messages

    Subpoena your telco.
    If you deleted them without a backup, they are gone.

  • How can I retrieve deleted text messages from my iphone 5

    Somebody deleted a string of text messages from my iPhone 5 and I want to know if they can be retrieved and if so how? I'm new to the iPhone as this is my first apple product.  I am still not even sure on how to use my iTunes and so forth.  Please help as the string of messages was very important!! Thank you so very much!! Tracy

    SMS text messages are backed up with the iPhone - whether it's locally or to iCloud. If you've already written over the backup that had them (as in, backed up after the delete) then they're gone.
    If you still have a backup available from a time where you had the messages on your iPhone, all you have to do is erase the iPhone and restore from that backup.
    "Retrieve deleted messages from iPhone" is simple as pie.

  • How can I recover deleted texts on my iphone 5?

    Does anyone know of a program that I can use to recover delted texts from my iphone 5 or is there a way I can do it from the phone?  First time ever needing to do this and not quite sure how to go about it...
    Any help or feedback would be greatly appreciated!
    Thanks!

    No I usually delete texts when they are annoying right away - scammers and things like that.  I feel like I have seen the same number more than once now though and I was curious if it was.  I think I can go through my cellular records and compare the numbers but would like to have the content to.  I will check to see if I have a back up for then but I doubt it - pretty sure I have backed up since then.
    Thanks!

  • How can you recover old text message on the iPhone 4S?

    I'm not sure what happened, but recently I lost all of my old text messages. I use these for historical documentation and need to know if there is a way to recover them. Any suggestions/advice you have is appreciated!

    Open the conversation in Messages and scroll the screen.

  • How can I recover old text messages? I didnt have a back up.

    Someone erased my Iphone and I lost everything. It was fairly new so I didnt have a back up.
    Those messages urgently needed. Can anyone help me get them back?
    Thank you

    FYI, iOS 7 has a feature that you can enable that will prevent this from happening again.  Before you can erase all content & settings, you'd have to enter in your Apple ID password
    Also, a passcode lock will prevent unauthorized access as well.
    And, as KiltedTIme said, backups are a good thing.  iCloud can back up your data automatically for you.
    Learn from this painful life lesson so that it doesn't happen again.

  • HT4528 How do I recover a text message that I deleted?

    How do I recover a text message that I deleted?

    You restore the phone from a backup made when the message was still present.

  • How can I recover deleted messages from iphone 4?

    How can I recover deleted messages from iphone 4?

    You don't.
    E-mail is kept on your e-mail server.
    Have you failed to import your photos to your comptuer regularly?
    If so, then they are likely gone.  You can try restoring from backup.

  • I deleted a pop email account from mail.  How can I recover those sent messages without Time Machine?

    I deleted a pop email account from mail.  How can I recover those sent messages without Time Machine?

    Thomas,
    "Note that you were warned that this would happen and approved it.  When you delete an e-mail account in Mail, you are shown a message like the following:"
    You didn't read my problem - I said I deleted a POP email account.  I always read the messages that pop up and in Mail when you delete a POP account - IT DOESN'T TELL YOU NUTHIN!  It just deletes it - which *** for me.  Fortunately, I had an iPhone and on that device I had about a 1000 messages that I could recover but on all my POP accounts I download them from the server onto my Mac so they were only on Mail (the really old ones that I wanted to keep.)  I had to move them into another directory one by one basically because when I would move 50 some of them would move and some wouldn't and I never did figure out that problem.  Basically the ones that would not move are the ones that were associated with my domain changes with GoDaddy, and there were a lot of those.  Have no idea as to why only those were resistant to moving but I can get all that data from GoDaddy anyway.
    This thread is now moot seeing as how I've recovered everything I can and am going to just move on - and back up more often.  ;-)
    Apple and Mail need to rewrite that program to include a WARNING MESSAGE when deleting an Account in Mail that says ALL YOUR MESSAGES ARE GOING TO DISAPPEAR NEVER TO RETURN IF YOU DELETE THIS ACCOUNT, SO YOU DANG WELL BETTER HAVE A BACK UP IF YOU WANT TO KEEP ANYTHING BEFORE PRESSING THAT MINUS SYMBOL!  ;-)

  • How can i recover old sms messages which were deleted about a week ago?

    How can I recover older sms messages which were deleted about a week ago? I have tried some software but it only recovers messages from the date deleted not prior.

    You Can't
    sorry Once Deleted
    forever Deleted

  • How do i recover a text message that has been deleted

    how do i recover a text message that has been deleted

    Did you back it up first?  If so, are you willing to restore your iPhone back to the last backup?
    If you didn't back it up, it's gone.

  • HT3529 can you retrieve deleted text messages

    Is there a way to recover deleted text messages

    (I know this is a somewhat old thread, but someone may stumble on it if they're in a similar situation!)
    It really all depends, unfortunately. When the messages are deleted, the database storing them marks it as "deleted" but doesn't actually destroy the information fully. Eventually the database will recompact the space, rearrange, and reuse, but until then the message could be found.
    With that said, from my own experience, sometimes the much older messages are the ones that happen to stick around, and the newer ones get overwritten first. It all just depends on how the space in the file gets compacted and reused I'd say it's worth a try to look.
    I am the main developer for Decipher TextMessage, which has a feature to recover deleted text messages from the iPhone backup files. The nice thing is that the software will scan for your iTunes backups of your phones (perhaps finding the message in an older backup before it was deleted!), show you all of the regular not-deleted messages, and then you can press the recover button to look for deleted information. I usually recommend running the program once to see what older information you have (always better to get the original not-deleted version when possible) and then make a new backup and run Decipher TextMessage again.
    I hope this helps someone out! If you want to send us some more questions directly, you can do so from our website http://deciphertools.com
    (Disclaimer: Clearly since I work for Decipher Media, the links I have made above to deciphertools.com may benefit me in the future.)

  • Is there anyway to recover deleted text messages without a backup?

    I have an Iphone 3gs. I desperately need to recover deleted text messages from it. I have never synched my phone to itunes, "automatically synch to itunes" has always been unchecked. I had never made a back up until a few days ago, but i need to recover the messages deleted prior to creating the backup. is this possible at all? thank you
    and once the phone is synched, are your deleted messages lost forever
    thank you so much!

    If the backup is made after the messages were deleted, then you won't be able to get them back via an iTunes restore. However, you may be able to use a third-party program to look at the backup made after the messages were deleted and see what information about those messages is recoverable.
    One program, the one I work on, is called Decipher TextMessage. Our software will scan the text-message database and show you what information (whole and incomplete) was found that has been previously deleted. We've had a lot of success helping folks recover their deleted text messages -- it doesn't always work 100% since we're at the mercy of how the database works but it's worth a shot to see what you can find!
    The website for Decipher TextMessage is http://deciphertools.com
    If you're curious about how the message recovery works, I've also posted more about it in these other threads:
    https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3958108
    https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4076721
    https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4077826
    You're also welcome to visit our website, try the software free, and send us any questions that you have.
    Disclaimer: Since I work on Decipher TextMessage, I stand to benefit from the links to our website that I've made above.

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