Other restore iMessage from iCloud with iMessage in the cloud enabled

[iphone3gnj]

Is this possible? I can’t find anything searching for it. It seems I need to erase and restore my phone to get a message. That sucks for sure if that’s the case.

 

[iphone3gnj]

Well just got off the phone with Apple support, and this is not possible. Way to go inconveniencing your customers, and so much for iCloud iMessage.

 

[C DM]

I was under the impression that that was one of the main features of iMessages in iCloud: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208532

Or do you mean you are looking to get something out of there on a device that is already set up and has messages and you are trying to get some certain ones onto the device? In which case, that won't really be something that does it like that.

 

[iphone3gnj]

All messages in the cloud does is sync between devices. Once you delete the message, it’s gone. You can’t restore it like you can restore deleted files from iCloud. The only way to restore it is to restore from a backup. And then the restored message will sync with all devices again. You should have a window of being able to restore individual deleted messages like you can with files as well as contacts and a few other items.

Restoring from new sucks because it breaks a lot of apps (finance especially) that have Face ID tied to them. You have to set that up again along with your wallet.