Retrieve Lost iPhone Messages

Whatever you have backups or not, here, we can help you retrieve your lost iPhone messages selectively with a few clicks.

Now we’ll introduce you iRefone, which is a powerful iOS data recovery software. With its help, we can help you recover more than 16 kinds of iPhone data even you didn’t do any backup, including contacts, notes, messages, photos, reminders, calendars, call history, WeChat message ect. Also it can help us extract data from iTunes and iCloud backup selectively, and it doesn’t need us to erase all content and settings.

Now download and install the free trial version to have a try.



Retrieve Lost Messages from iPhone Directly

Now we’ll see how iRefone help us extract messages from iPhone directly, when we have no backups.

Step 1. Run iRefone, connect your iPhone with PC. Choose “Recover from iOS Device”, and click “Start”.



Step 2. Now we’ll enter the new interface with many data icon and media icon that iRefone can recover, find and click “Message” icon, and it will be scanned by the software.



Step 3. Wait a few seconds for scanning, then you can preview and choose your lost messages, then tap on “Recover to PC”, and choose folder path to save them.



Retrieve Lost Messages from iTunes Backup

Now when you have backups on iTunes and iCloud, things will be much easier. Follow below steps, and see how iRefone extract data from iTunes backup selectively.

Step 1. Run iRefone, launching your iTunes. Choose “Recover from iTunes Backup”, then all your backup files on iTunes will show up.



Step 2. Now find the backup files you need, tap on “Select” at the end of the files you need. Then we’ll enter the new interface, and find “Message” icon from all those data icon and media icon.



Step 3. Wait a few seconds for scanning, then you can preview and choose messages you need, tap on “Recover to PC”.



Retrieve Lost iPhone Messages from iCloud

Now we’ll see how to use iRefone extract lost messages from iCloud backup selectively, and doesn’t need us to erase all content and settings.

Step 1. Run iRefone, choose “Recover from iCloud Backup”, and log in it with your Apple ID and password.



Step 2. When log in, we can see all our backup files on iCloud. Find the one we need, then click “Download” at the end of the files.



Step 3. after downloading, we’ll enter new interface with many data icon and media icon. Here, we can find “Message” icon, click it.



Step 4. when finish scanning, we can preview and choose lost messages we need, then tap on “Recover to PC”.



Recover Lost Messages from iTunes and iCloud Free

If you don’t want to use third-party software to help you with it, and you don’t mind it won’t support us to extract data from iTunes and iCloud selectively, now you can follow below steps.

For iTunes:

Launching your iTunes, connect your iPhone with PC. Go to Files--Summary, then you can see all your backup files on left side bar.

Choose the files you need, tap on “Restore Backup” on the right page, and confirm with “Restore”.

For iCloud:

Connect your iPhone with Wifi, go to Setting--General--Erase All Content and Settings, when all content and settings are erased, go to set up assistant with a hello screen.

Swipe to begin the set up progress, choose the files you need, tap on “Restore Backup”, and confirm with “Restore”.

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