How to Retrieve Deleted Text Messages from iTunes Backup

 

The text messages of the iPhone are significant part of our life, which may include the sweet memories with our friends or the important info of the working schedule. It happens that the text messages can get lost for many reasons such as mistaken deletion, device damage, or new iOS upgrade. iTunes makes it easy to backup your iPhone data includes your text messages. So, once you lost your text messages in some dreadful day, you can retrieve them from iTunes backup.

However, Apple won’t let you retrieve ONLY messages from iTunes backup, instead, you have to perform a whole restore that means the existing texts, contacts, notes and more will be replaced. How to retrieve just messages from iTunes backup without wiping data?

One professional iOS & Android data recovery tool named PhoneRescue is all you need. PhoneRescue – iOS data recovery is also an iTunes/iCloud backup extractor that helps recover deleted text messages as well as message attachments.

PhoneRescue Highlights

- Capable of retrieving SMS, iMessages, as well as message attachments, which may contain info that really counts much.

- Saves messages to HTML or TEXT format as per your needs.

- Retrieves 22 types of iOS content including messages, contacts, notes, photos, call history, calendar, Safari history, etc.

- Selectively scans the files before you recover which greatly saves your time and efforts.

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How to Retrieve Deleted Text Messages from iTunes Backup

Step 1. Download PhoneRescue (choose Download for iOS) and install it on your computer > Open it.

Step 2. Select Recover from iTunes Backup > Click on Right Arrow.

Step 3. Select the backup that contains the messages you want to get back > Click on Right Arrow to scan the backup.

Step 4. Select Messages > Preview and select the messages you need > Click on To Computer button to download them to computer or To iDevice button to get them to your iPhone.

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Note: If you didn't backup your iPhone text messages before you delete them, you can also retrieve them with PhoneRescue by following this guide: How to Retrieve MMS/SSM/iMessages/WhatsApp Messages on iPhone >

The Bottom Line

PhoneRescue manages to retrieve your deleted text messages no matter you have a backup or not. Any question or comment about this article or PhoneRescue is welcomed. Meanwhile, don't forget to share this article with your friends.