I need to retrieve a series of very old (more than 1 year old) text messages from my iPhone 4S. Is this possible?

I need to retrieve a series of very old (more than 1 year old) text messages from my iPhone 4S. Is this possible?

If the text is still on the phone and wasn't deleted, I don't see why not. Probably easiest to use an app like TouchCopy (Mac and PC) or PhoneView (Mac), rather than looking through things on the phone itself.

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