How to recover deleted text messages from iPhone

I accidentally deleted some text messages from my iPhone and I forgot to back up them to iCloud and iTunes. So I cannot recover them from the backups. Can I retrieve my deleted messages from iPhone without backup? What should I do if I want to recover all my lost messages.

If you delete your text messages from iPhone by mistake, you should restore them as soon as possible. Retrieving your lost messages from your iPhone may be a bit difficult, but you should try this at the first time. Time is not the limit for data recovery, but recover immediately will reduce data overwritten so that you have less data loss. Here we introduce you the best way to help you restore your lost data.

Why your lost messages still can be recovered on iPhone?

When you delete the messages from your iPhone, the messages are removed from iPhone, but they have not really get deleted. The deleted messages on iPhone are marked as deleted by system and then be hidden so that we cannot find them on iPhone. If you do not add too many new data to overwritten these hidden data, they will always store here. That’s why you can recover your lost messages.

How do I know if the data are still on my iPhone? How to find these invisible data? If you have iCloud or iTunes backups, you can easily recover your data from backups. In case you have no backup, you need to use the data recovery software. Recovery software can find and show all the deleted and invisible data on your device.

How to recover deleted messages from iPhone without backups?

Recover deleted text messages from iPhone with iPhone data recovery software

If you have no backups, you have to choose an iPhone data recovery software to retrieve your lost messages. H Data iPhone recovery software is a professional data recovery software for iOS devices. It allow you to recover deleted calendars, notes, contacts, messages, photos, safari history etc. This software can scan and list all your exiting data ,and the deleted and hidden data.

Download H Data iPhone recovery software and follow these steps to recover your deleted messages.

Use an USB cable to connect your iPhone with computer and launch H Data iPhone recovery on your computer. Choose “ Scan iPhone for deleted files” on the software. The software will detect your iPhone automatically. Once detected, you can see the Scan button in green. If not, it will require you to reconnect your device. Also, you can choose “ View and Restore files from iTunes backups” if you have iTunes backups on your computer. After that it will show your backup and the serial number of your device.

Click “Scan” button to let the software to scan all the data on your iPhone. After scan, you can see all the recoverable data.

Choose “Messages”  to preview all the displayed messages. Click each message to preview the content.

Check the messages that you need to extract and click “Export selected records” to export all the  messages that you need.