Lost iPhone, need text messages. Can SMS messages be recovered from my Mac?

[h4lp m3]

someone tell me they might be in one of these folders.

 

[h4lp m3]

how do i open open sms.db?

I have extracted my sms.db to my Mac. Is there a free utility that can open it?

 

[chown33]

What have you tried?

Here's what I tried...
Google search terms: iphone sms.db

Top hit: Export iPhone Text Messages to a Spreadsheet

Step 4 from the article: "Open the SQLite database"

Total time: under 30 seconds.

 

[h4lp m3]

I don't want a spreadsheet.
I want to make it look like it is on the iPhone where the texts go back and fourth with the little bubbles around the attachments.

 

[hayesk]

But to answer your non-programming related question, no, there is no utility that will open your SMS.db file and present it in an iChat-like interface.

 

[trett]

We can recover iPhone messages by extracting from iTunes backup file, and there are many iPhone backup extractor works great! Have a try!

 

[ce_cilia]

We can recover iPhone messages by extracting from iTunes backup file, and there is a FonePaw iPhone Data Recovery works great! Have a try!

I have deleted a very important message from my iPhone 6, I will give it a shot.

 

[CraigJoubert]

I have deleted a very important message from my iPhone 6, I will give it a shot.

FonePaw are useless. Don't try this way.