How to recover text messages from iPhone?

There are so many factors that lead to data loss on your iPhone. If you accidentally delete your text messages from iPhone, and you need to recover them immediately, then what will you do? Generally, the first thing for us is to restore from the backups if we have.

How to find the iTunes backups?

First, you need to confirm that you have backups on your computer.

For Mac, you should go to the menu and click Go to Folder, enter ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/, and select Go. You will find all your iTunes backups on this computer.

In Windows, you can find the iTunes backups in this path: Users>Administrator>AppData>Roaming>Apple Computer>MobileSync>Backup.

Also, you can check in iTunes by click Preferences>Devices, you can see all the backups of your devices and the time and date.

How to recover data with iTunes backup?

Run iTunes on your computer and sign in.

Click the iPhone icon on the left side.

Click “Restore backup” button on the right side.

Choose the backup which you want to recover by clicking the drop-down list.

Click Restore and wait for the restoration ends.

Recovering from iTunes backups is very easy for you, but it still have problems. You should know that if you restore from iTunes to iPhone, the backup will replace all your data on iPhone so that some new data that have not been backed up will be overwritten. In that case, you’d better not directly restore from the iTunes backup. The solution is to use an iPhone data recovery software to extract data from the backup and save them on your computer.

How to extract text message from iPhone backups?

1. Install H Data iPhone recovery software on your computer and run iTunes.

The software will display all the available iTunes backups on your computer. If not ,you can click to choose the backup on your computer to scan.

2. Scan the backups and preview the data

After scan, you will be able to preview all the contents on your backup. Click each type of contents to preview. All the displayed contents on the software can be recovered.

Click Messages on the left side so that you can preview the contents of each message.

3. Check the message that you need and click to Export them.

4. Check the recovered files folder to find your recovered messages.

In addition, you also can choose to scan directly from your iPhone with this recovery software. It can scan all your deleted and lost data which have not been overwritten. All the deleted data are shown in Red in the scanning results so that you can fin your lost data easily. The demo version of H Data iPhone software is completely free and allow you to scan, and preview all your photos. While if you want to preview all your recoverable data and extract them, you have to use the Full version.

iOS data recovery is based on your existing data on iPhone. The same to other operating systems, the deleted data on iOS system will not be erased immediately. If you retrieve them immediately, you can easy recover them.