How to Extract Text Messages from iPhone Backup Easily

Most of us send and receive messages everyday. It gives us a convenient way to communicate with other people. We send messages to families to tell them the time we go home and receive messages from friends about their interesting things. The messages mean a lot to us. However, we may lose these important messages in some cases because of mistaken deletion, failed iOS upgrade, or other unexpected reasons. You may want to recover these lost or deleted messages as soon as possible, but don’t know how?

Generally, the Apple Experts will suggest you restoring your iDevice with iTunes or iCloud backup. But you must know that once you choose to restore your iDevice all the present data of your device will been replaced by the backup. That means you will lose some important things you treasure a lot. Is there any other way to directly extract messages from backup without restoring device? Absolutely, in this post we will recommend you an efficient iOS data recovery product – PhoneRescue. You can extract text messages from iTunes and iCloud backup selectively and you do not have to restore your device. Now, let’s have a brief comprehend about this amazing product.

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The Tool We Will Use

PhoneRescue is an easy-to-use iOS data recovery tool that can recover the most important 22 types of iOS content, such as messages, contacts, photos, notes and more. It can retrieve lost or deleted messages directly from iDevice or extract them to computer from iTunes backup or iCloud backup. You can also preview the messages before extracting them and select the messages you want to extract. More than anything, you can save messages to HTML format. So why not download and have a try?

Next, we will give you a detailed tutorial about how to extract messages from iPhone backup. You can just follow us to extract text messages from iTunes backup or iCloud backup.

Part 1. Extract Text Messages from iTunes Backup

Requirements: your iPhone or iPad, one USB cable, computer, PhoneRescue.

Step 1: Free download and install PhoneRescue > Click on "Recover from iTunes Backup" and click forward button to get all backups on your computer. If you want to get some messages from iTunes to your device, just connect your device to computer by using USB cable.

Step 2：Select one iTunes backup and go to next to scan content on it.

Step 3: Preview and select messages you want, and extract them to your device.

Note: When extract messages from iPhone to computer, you can save messages to HTML or TEXT form on your computer.

Part 2. Extract Text Messages from iCloud Backup

Step 1: Launch PhoneRescue > Choose "Recover from iCloud" and go forward.

Step 2: After logging into your iCloud by using Apple ID and password, you can select any backup, download it and then click forward icon to scan data in it.

Step 3：After scan, you can preview the Messages and extract you wanted items to your mobile device or to computer. (Notice that if you want to get messages to your iPhone or iPad, you should connect your device to computer at the first step.)

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The Bottom Line

As you can see, PhoneRescue can help you extract text messages from iPhone backup easily. If you also want to recover deleted or lost call history, photos, contacts or notes, PhoneRescue can help you make it with a few clicks. For this guide, if you have any other question or have any problem when using PhoneRescue, please feel free to leave a comment in the comment section or come back to contact us via .