How to Recover Lost Text Messages from iPhone after iOS 9 iOS 9.1/9.2 Update

Apple recently released iOS 9.2 to fix lots of bugs to make iOS run more stable and safe. However, just like the previous iOS 9.02/9.1 update, this iOS update also has its common problems, such as can’t sync iPhone music and iPhone messages disappeared.

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We have posted a article to solve iTunes sync problem, and now we talk about how to get back lost text messages from iPhone - If we accidentally deleted or lost our text messages or iMessages on our iPhone, what can we do to get them back?

Methods to Recover SMS on iPhone

The traditional ways to recover your iPhone is using iTunes and iCloud – two ways Apple officially provides for you to backup and restore your iOS devices. However, the restoring will erase all of your iPhone data and it request that you have one iPhone backup that created before you lost the messages.

Therefore, we provide one simple application PhoneRescue for you to retrieve lost text messages from iPhone, and it is also compatible with other iOS devices, such as iPod touch, iPad Air/Mini. With this tool, you can scan your lost data on iPhone and save them as HTML/TXT/PDF to computer. Additionally, you can also use it to extract text messages from iPhone backup, no matter it is one iTunes backup or iCloud backup. Now let's check the steps about how to use it to recover iPhone 4s messages and messages attachments.

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How to Recover iPhone SMS and Message Attachments with PhoneRescue

Requirements: your iPhone, one USB cable, one computer, and PhoneRescue.

After downloading PhoneRescue and installing it on computer, you can easily try 3 methods to get back text messages on your iPhone.

Step 1. Run PhoneRescue, connect your iPhone to computer with USB cable, and select one suitable method to recover text messages.

Step 2. Scan Lost Messages by selecting Messages and Messages Attachments > clicking "Start Scan".

Step 3. After scanning, click "Messages" to preview lost messages. Select the ones you want get back and export them to computer by clicking "Recover". All of these messages can be saved as HTML/TXT/PDF.

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The Bottom Line

If the lost text messages were overwritten by some new data your iPhone created, you can't get them back from your iPhone directly. So before updating to a new iOS operating system, you'd better backup the contents on your iOS device.