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nataliag1980 Author

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recover deleted message i thought were backed up

When I look in my settings it said that my messages were back up to the ICLOUD but I can not retrieve any of the ones I deleted. How am I able to view my old messages

iPhone 11, iOS 14

Posted on May 18, 2021 2:00 PM

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Tesserax

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Posted on May 18, 2021 2:10 PM

Two things:

By messages are you referring to text/iMessage or email messages?
Please take a look at the following Apple Support article, specifically the section, titled: iCloud backups to see what gets backed up.

Ref: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204136?cid=tw_sr

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