How to Recover Deleted SMS (Text Messages) from iPhone

SMS usually means a lot to us. We keep up with our family and friends through it, sharing our happiness, sadness and more. Sometimes, we receive an SMS reminder and plan to read it later. However, SMS on our iPhone are easily gone for accidental deletion, corrupted system, Jailbreak, unsuccessful iOS upgrade, factory settings restore and so on. If you come across this situation unfortunately, don't be anxious. It's possible to retrieve your deleted or lost SMS from iPhone directly or get back them from iTunes or iCloud backup if you backed up your iPhone before.

How to Recover Deleted SMS from iPhone

There are various online suggestions for you to recover lost/deleted SMS from iPhone. However, you are unnecessary to try all of them. This article mainly talks about the easiest way to retrieve deleted SMS messages quickly and safely. That is to use Aiseesoft FoneLab, an SMS recovery tool for iOS device, to get back lost or deleted SMS from iPhone, and iTunes or iCloud backup.

Aiseesoft FoneLab is the most professional iPhone SMS recovery tool in the world. Offered three recovery modes, it will give you an all-sided SMS recovering experience and never lets you done. With the clear and uncluttered interface, it's easier than ever to recover the deleted or lost SMS messages mistakenly from iPhone due to mistakenly deletion or corrupted system. Besides, you are allowed to use it recovers more from iPhone, like contacts, music, videos, call history, photos, and Safari bookmarks. And it supports iPhone SE/6s Plus/6s/6 Plus/6/5s/5c/5/4s/4/3GS. What's more, it is a reliable and anti-ads program to use. The following part will show the specific steps of retrieving deleted SMS on iPhone.

You can learn the steps from the video below:

How to Retrieve Deleted SMS from iPhone 6

Step 1Download and install this iPhone SMS recovery software on your computer and then launch it.

Step 2Connect your iPhone to computer and make your iPhone scanned.

Connect your iPhone 6 to computer with a USB cable and choose "Restore from iOS Device". As soon as your iPhone is detected by the program, hit on the "Start Scan" button to let the program scan all data files on iPhone.

Step 3Select the deleted SMS you want to recover and get them recovered.

After scanning, a list of categories including all data files on iPhone 6 appears on the left. Click "Messages" to view and select SMS messages you need. And then click the"Recover" button to get them recovered.

However, your iPhone is not at hand or lost at somewhere but luckily has backed up with iTunes and or iCloud. You still can find deleted SMS back from iCloud or iTunes backup with this SMS recovery tool.

How to recover deleted SMS with iTunes backup

If you sync iPhone to iTunes then now you are fortunate to retrieve the deleted SMS from your iTunes backup file.

Step 1Download, install and launch Aiseesoft FoneLab on your computer.

Note that the computer installed the program should be the very computer where you backed up your iPhone 6 before.

Step 2Choose recovery mode and select your iTunes backup to scan.

Choose the second mode "Recover from iTunes Backup File" and a list of iTunes backups including device name and last backup date will appear on the main interface. Just select the one you need and click "Start Scan" to scan all data files in this backup.

Step 3Select the deleted SMS you want to recover and recover them.

When the scanning process is finished, you can click "Messages" from the left list and view all current and deleted SMS on your iPhone 6. Just tick the deleted SMS you want to restore and click "Recover" button to get them recovered.