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Dmez01 Author

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Recover deleted texts

Hello I accidentally deleted a whole text conversation with a close friend, is there a way to recover them? I tried restoring from iCloud but those texts weren’t in the backup.

-David

iPhone 12 Pro, iOS 14

Posted on Jun 21, 2021 12:03 PM

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Demo

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Posted on Jun 21, 2021 12:09 PM

If the texts were not included in the backup, or if you restored backup and the texts did not restore, they are gone. In additional to that, if you were syncing messages with iCloud and the texts were deleted, they are also gone for good and can’t be recovered.

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