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In today’s video, we’re gonna show you 3 helpful ways about how to recover your deleted
iMessages on iPhone without a backup.
Whether you deleted your iMessages to free up storage space, or accidently lost some
important iMessage conversations, don’t worry.
It’s still possible to recover your deleted iMessages on your iPhone without a backup.
So now, let’s see how.
The first place you should check after deleting your iMessages is the Recently Deleted folder
on your iPhone.
In fact, recovering deleted iMessages from the Recently Deleted folder is probably the
easiest way to get back the lost conversations without using a backup, but keep in mind that
it only works on iOS 16 and above.
So, if your device is running iOS 16 or later, you can restore your deleted iMessage very
quickly.
Or, you can check the method number 2 if you’re using an older iOS version.
Now, in order to show you how, I’m gonna delete a piece of iMessages on my iPhone.
And to recover the content we just deleted, simply open the iPhone Messages.
We’re already on the Messages screen.
And from the upper left corner, tap on the Filters.
And then, select the Recently Deleted option.
Alright, from here, you can view all the messages that have been deleted recently.
And as you can see, your iMessages will stay in this folder for 30 days before they get
permanently deleted.
All you need to do now, is to select the conversations you want to retrieve, and then press the Recover
option on the bottom right corner.
If you want to recover all the messages in the list, just tap on Recover All instead.
And then confirm your recovery option so you can get them all back.
If you can’t find the deleted iMessages in this folder, they may be completely deleted
from your iPhone.
And if that's the case, check out this data recovery tool, which can help you recover
deleted iPhone data even if you don't have any backups.
The data restore tool we’re going to talk about is called AppGeeker iOS Data Recovery.
It’s an efficient tool that can scan your iPhone memory to recover the deleted files,
including your iMessages, photos, phone calls, texts, notes and many other files.
It's very easy to use, you just need to connect your iPhone to your Mac or PC, and let it
take care of the rest.
So, firstly, install the iOS Data Recovery tool on your macOS or Windows, I’ll share
the download link in the video description below, you can click to explore more features
of it.
Alright, then we just open up the program and connect the iPhone.
As we’re going to recover the iMessages without a backup, here, we select the first
option, Recover from iOS device.
It works on iPad too, if you need.
This tool won’t erase anything on your iPhone, the only thing it does is to find the deleted
files and get them restored.
so now, click the Start Scan option, and give it a few minutes to find all deleted data
on your iOS.
Without waiting long, it will show you all the scan results that you’re able to recover.
To get back your deleted iMessages, select Messages and Message Attachments in the left
menu, you can find them under the Message and Contacts option.
Also, you can preview the existing messages on the right side.
This will save you much time if you don’t want to recover all the messages it finds.
The preview feature can help you find the exact iMessages that you wanna get back.
So now, just simply check the iMessages you wish to retrieve, and hit the Recover button
on the bottom right.
You can set a new location to save the deleted files.
And click on the Recover box.
That’s it.
It’s quite simple, right?
As long as your deleted content hasn’t been overwritten, just connect, scan, and select
what you want, then your deleted iMessages will be back.
This is the most efficient way to recover your iPhone data without backup after accidental
deletion.
You can try it out on your iPhone or iPad right now by clicking the link below this
video!
The last method is to use the iCloud Restore, but only if you have synced your iPhone before
deleting the iMessages.
Otherwise, you’ll have to go to the first two options in this video.
So assuming that you have synced your iPhone to iCloud backup before inadvertently deleting
your iMessages, you can easily download the content from iCloud to your iPhone.
The only drawback of restoring iMessages from iCloud is that you’ll have to factory reset
your iPhone as a first step, which will erase all your current content and settings.
But since you’ve synced your iPhone data to iCloud, you can restore them all later.
And if you’re not sure whether your iCloud storage contains the iMessages you want, this
might not be a good option for you.
Well, things get easier when you're pretty sure you've synced or backed up everything
to your iCloud.
To restore deleted iMessages from iCloud, like I said, you’re gonna reset your iPhone
to factory settings first.
So, go to Settings, then General, and select Transfer or Reset iPhone from the menu list.
After that, make sure to select the option Erase All Content and Settings.
And then, Continue.
If asked, enter your passcode to log out your iCloud account.
Then wait for your phone to wipe out everything.
After resetting, your iPhone will restart.
And the Hello screen shows up.
Now, follow the on-screen steps to go through the setup process, when you reach the Apps
and Data screen, you can now restore everything from your iCloud Backup, including all your
iMessages, texts, and media data as well.
Tap on Restore from iCloud Backup, and the input your Apple ID and password to get in.
Then select the most relevant backup to retrieve your iMessages.
If you don't have a backup available on your iCloud, check out our top two recommended
methods, otherwise, you may lose all your iPhone data.
Alright, that’s what we have for today.
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