Four Ways to Recover Accidentally Deleted Text Messages from iPhone X/8/7/6s

Although instant messaging apps like WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger are popular among iPhone users, SMS text messaging along with iMessage is still great and convenient for communication, and it’s common that iPhone stores tons of messages. But sometimes you may accidentally delete important text messages from it.
Is it possible to retrieve deleted text messages from iPhone 8/7 plus/6s/6/5s/5? Luckily, the answer is yes, and there are four ways to get them back.

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Method 1: Recover Deleted Text Messages from iPhone with a Third-party App (Recommended)

If you just deleted text messages without any backup in iTunes/iCloud, something must be done before the lost SMS messages get overwritten. Gihosoft iPhone Data Recovery Software is highly-recommended to recover deleted text messages from iPhone even if you don't have backup of SMS. You can download and try it for free. Just follow these steps to retrieve deleted text messages from iPhone:

• Step 1: Run Gihosoft iPhone Recovery on your computer, and select “Messages” and “Messages Attachments”.

• Step 2: Connect your iPhone to computer and scan it for deleted text messages. (If you have a backup, you can choose to view iTunes backup and extract the message threads you need with this software.)
• Step 3: Preview the deleted Messages after scanning, then select the threads you want and click the "Recover" button to retrieve the deleted messages from iPhone.

Method 2: Recover Deleted Text Messages from iTunes Backup

Apple offers backup service for iOS users to deal with such problems as data lost. If you have a habit of regular backup, you can restore the latest backup to your iPhone, but it's unsure that you can get back the deleted text messages, for those deleted recently might not be contained in the old backup files.
To check your iTunes backup files, you can use Gihosoft iPhone recovery software to see if your deleted texts are in the backup.

• Step 1: Launch iPhone SMS recovery software, select ‘Messages’ and ‘Message attachments’, and click ‘Next’. 

• Step 2: Choose ‘View iTunes backup’. All your backup files on the computer will be listed there, or you can import from other folders.
• Step 3: Select the latest one to scan and extract. After scanning, you can see the message threads listed in details.
• Step 4: Check the deleted text messages and you can restore your iPhone with the iTunes backup. Alternatively, you can export those messages to the computer in readable formats.

Learn details on how to use iTunes to restore your iPhone with backup.

Method 3: Restore Deleted Text Messages with iCloud Backup

iCloud is another way that Apple provided for backup. If you back up regularly, you will have backup files on it. Yet you have to know that the recently deleted text messages might not be contained there. Once you use, iCloud will restore you iPhone to an old backup version. Fortunately, the Gihosoft iPhone Recovery is also able to extract messages from your iCloud backup, without changing any data on your iPhone.

1. Run the iPhone SMS recovery tool and select "Messages".
2. Click on "View iCloud Backup" and sign in with your Apple ID.
3. Download and scan your backup for iPhone deleted texts.
4. Preview and recover lost text messages from iCloud.

Method 4: Contact Your Mobile Carriers

If these three methods above can’t help you, you still have one place to ask: your mobile carriers. Some of them may keep your records of text messages, but merely a list of who sent you those messages and when they were sent, you can’t get the full message contents. Moreover, to ask your mobile carriers for help, you must prove your identity and go through many procedures so that they will give you those records.