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Any way to recover deleted iMessages?

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cdinca

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my daughter accidentally deleted here iMessages.

she is not too happy about this.
is there any way to redownload them?

wifi sync was never activated.

Thanks in advance.
 
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There contained in your backups
 
Gav2k said:
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There contained in your backups
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so, if it has not been synced sine ios5 was installed, she is out of luck?
 
an added twist

she has a 3gs that still has all of the imessages...any way to get them from the 3gs to the ipad?
 
Is this iMessage specific?

I cant find deleted iMessages anywhere. Do I need to back up the phone before I sync it? Where do I go to find the deleted iMessages? I have a program that retrieves deleted SMS texts, but the iMessages are gone.

Any help greatly appreciated!!!
 
Yeah, like everyone has said the only way to get them back is to restore from backup. But if you haven't backed up in a while then it's a pretty moot point unless of course she wants any history of the iMessages. I haven't seen any programs that un-delete them. However, I use PhoneView to extract/copy them for backup, it still stays on the phone.
 
Phone view

Does phone view work specifically on iMessages? I can get to all the deleted text messages but not the iMessages. Also, do I need to back up the phone before it syncs to iTunes to make it work?
 
jnboone said:
Does phone view work specifically on iMessages? I can get to all the deleted text messages but not the iMessages. Also, do I need to back up the phone before it syncs to iTunes to make it work?
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It sees it all as Text Messages. Phone View starts up with at the same time with iTunes. Doesn't matter if you back it up first. Phone View can't access your phone if iTunes is using it.
 
thatoneguy82 said:
It sees it all as Text Messages. Phone View starts up with at the same time with iTunes. Doesn't matter if you back it up first. Phone View can't access your phone if iTunes is using it.
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I love Phone View, keep up with all my messages as well as moving music from iPhone's to your itunes...
 
Phone view

I contacted phone view and they said it will not capture deleted iMessages. Anybody sure it does - not just regular text messages?
 
iPhoneUser2013 said:
It used to be impossible in 2011 when you asked the question, but now it is possible. (for example) provides a tutorial somewhere, for how to recover iMessages.

I don't think the topic starter still requires one , but anyway... it's there for everyone's benefit.
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Humm. I will give it a try.
 
If you have backup, you can restore from backup. If you don't have, you can try the third data recovery software. That will be easy!:)
 
Is there anyway to have all messages on your iPhone duplicate on your iPad for both incoming and outgoing. It would be great to keep a log like this.
 
My imessage and facetime was also not working. I tried everything apart from resetting all settings because i didnt want it to delete all my photos as i don't have computer to back my files on to. anyway what i done was checked my date/time settings and it was showing the correct time but it was on cupertino usa...
so if you are part of the uk go into settings > General > date & time > turn set automatically off.. and then put your time in manually and then turn set automatically back on.. it should then recover deleted iMessages.
then turn on facetime and imessage.. it will come up waiting on activation. mines took about 20 minutes but worked.

hope iPhone Data Recovery helps :)
 
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I read somewhere that when you delete messages they arent fully deleted until you sync with itunes, they are put in a folder somewhere that isnt dumped until you sync.
 
Steve121178 said:
Why do people want to keep messages? Surely after they have been read they have served their purpose?

Never understood why people put value on them.
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zorinlynx said:
Same reason you might want to keep home videos. They can contain memories.
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Or photos. People sure keep a lot of those around. Just because a message is less "visual" than a photo or a video it doesn't mean that it's not something some people might want to keep around for one reason or another.
 
C DM said:
Or photos. People sure keep a lot of those around. Just because a message is less "visual" than a photo or a video it doesn't mean that it's not something some people might want to keep around for one reason or another.
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To give you an example, I recently dug out my Treo 650 to mess around with it. It still had text messages from five years ago on it. I read through them, and it brought back such memories!

Keeping old text messages can be an interesting source of nostalgia and memory-triggering for some. My geeky reminiscing turned into an hour long pouring through old conversations remembering moments from back then.
 
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