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Inky7 Author

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Why isn’t “Edit” appearing in Messages? I’m trying to recover deleted text messages and conversations on iPhone XR

iPhone XR, iOS 15

Posted on Dec 26, 2022 5:56 AM

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ProustGiulio

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Posted on Dec 26, 2022 6:00 AM

To perform the steps provided in the support article that led you here, your iPhone must run iOS 16 or later, bearing in mind that you can recover just messages "deleted while running" that iOS version (not the ones you deleted using and earlier version).

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Giulio

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