How to Retrieve Deleted Text Messages on iPhone/iPad/iPod - iOS Hacks

Phone Rescue can help you retrieve deleted SMS, WhatsApp messages from iPhone iPad and iPod touch. Free Download it firstly and then read this post to recover deleted iPhone text messages.

Retrieve Deleted Text Messages

Sometimes, the text messages on our mobile phone mean a lot to us, and the situation can get more severe when you get a SMS receiving reminder with vital videos, photos, voice memo, other kinds of attached data and files, which you keep for reusing in the near future.
If you often use your iPhone to send and receive messages, you may have a habit of clearing useless messages. It's very likely to delete some important old messages by accident, regretfully. In that way, is it possible to retrieve deleted text messages on iPhone?

Actually, after you remove a message from iPhone, the message doesn't actually get deleted. It's because the deleted messages is technically marked for deletion by the system and hidden so that they become invisible to us. Therefore, deleted messages still stays somewhere on iPhone and you can retrieve them as long as you find those marked and hidden messages files. Absolutely, this is limited that the deleted messages are not overwritten.
However, how can we find those marked and hidden messages files, and retrieve invisible messages on iPhone? It's impossible to find those hidden messages files unless you have outside help. PhoneRescue, is such a professional iPhone data recovery utility. With it, you can recover deleted text messages on iPhone iPad directly without any iTunes or iCloud backup by scanning your device and listing all the marked and hidden messages, and also allows you to preview the deleted messages before recovering them. More than anything, PhoneRescue also supports selectively extracting text messages and other iOS contents from iTunes and iCloud backup. Free Download iMobie PhoneRescue to Give It a Try >
How to retrieve deleted text messages on iPhone? Here, we give two examples about iPhone text messages recovery of SMS and WhatsApp. You can just follow us to recover deleted text messages on iPhone iPad with the detailed tutorials below.

Part 1. How to Retrieve Deleted Text Messages on iPhone

First of all, download and install PhoneRescue. And the whole recovery process will be finished within a few steps as below. Just follow us.
Step 1. Launch PhoneRescue on your computer (Mac and PC) > Connect your iPhone to computer with USB cable> Select Recover from an iOS device.

Retrieve Deleted Text Messages on iPhone with PhoneRescue - Step 1

Step 2: Select Messages and Message Attachments > Click Start Scan button to scan your iPhone for the hidden or deleted text messages.

Retrieve Deleted Text Messages on iPhone with PhoneRescue - Step 2

Unlike other data recovery tools, to save your time and efforts, PhoneRescue allows you to selectively scan message files before Recovery.
Step 3. Preview and select text messages you need.

Retrieve Deleted Text Messages on iPhone with PhoneRescue - Step 3

Once PhoneRescue finished the scan, you'll see a concise preview window with the overview of all your messages in threads. Moreover, for more efficiency, as a remarkable feature of PhoneRescue, you can directly copy scanned text messages to clipboard or share those recoverable messages with your friends in the first time.
Step 4. Click Recover button to retrieve your deleted text messages on your iPhone. PhoneRescue can help you save retrieved text messages to text or html, which you can freely select.

Furthermore, PhoneRescue also gives a hand even when you're in a much tougher situation. For example, your iPhone was badly damaged or failed to be recognized, or even worse to be stolen. It can help you retrieve messages without the necessity of connecting your iPhone by selectively extracting from iTunes or iCloud backup. how to retrieve deleted text messages from iCloud backup, and how to retrieve deleted text messages from iTunes backup, About you can visit PhoneRescue Support Center

Part 2. How to Retrieve Deleted Text Messages on WhatsApp

As a user of WhatsApp, a popular iPhone instant messaging app which is used to send and receive messages, you may come across accidentally deleted WhatsApp messages or uninstalled WhatsApp so that messages on WhatsApp disappear. Is there any way to retrieve them?
Well, PhoneRescue can help you retrieve WhatsApp messages and other app data in a safe and quick way. Before getting started, download and install PhoneRescue first.
Step 1：Run PhoneRescue on your Mac or PC > Connect your iPhone to computer > Select Recover from an iOS Device.
Step 2: Select Messages, Message Attachment, WhatsApp and WhatsApp attachment > Click Start Scan to scan your iPhone to search for deleted or lost WhatsApp messages and attachments.

Retrieve Deleted WhatsApp Messages and Attachments with PhoneRescue – Step 2

Step 3: Preview your chat history > Select the chats you want to recover > Click Recover button to get deleted WhatsApp messages back to computer.

Retrieve Deleted WhatsApp Messages with PhoneRescue – Step 3