Recovering Deleted iMessages Help

[mangocheese]

Hi everyone,

I accidentally deleted a very important conversation on my iPhone 5S. Is there any way I can recover them and put them back on my phone? From my understanding, the messages are not really deleted and iOS just hides the messages. I would do a restore but the problem is that I haven't made a backup of my phone for a very long time. However, I use iMessage on my macbook as well and the messages are still there on my macbook. Maybe there is a way I can transfer my messages from my macbook to my phone? I know you can save the messages to the computer by using third party apps, but what can I do to make them reappear on my phone? Any help would be very much appreciated!

 

[Gav2k]

Is iCloud backup on? Check when it last backed up as it is usually daily. If so just restore from that.

 

[C DM]

Why would they be hidden vs deleted?

 

[mangocheese]

Ok so I tried backing up on an old iCloud backup but it didn't bring back my deleted messages for some reason.

I'm not sure why its not really deleted. I came across an article that says iOS just marks it as invisible until its overwritten?? I might be remembering it wrong.

 

[Tom Levv]

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/any-way-to-recover-deleted-imessages.1278904/
This post talked about this a long time ago.