Messages on the iPhone usually mean a lot to us, especially when we get a SMS receiving reminder and plan to leave it to read later. However, usually at this time, the messages on our iPhone inbox are easily gone for various unpredicted reasons, like wrong deletion, Jailbreak, unsuccessful iOS upgrade, or factory settings restore, etc. Under this circumstance, many people become extremely anxious because they get nowhere in their searching for the deleted messages on the iPhone. Is it possible to retrieve deleted text messages from iPhone?
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| What data you can recovery with the iPhone Data Recovery |
iPhone Data Recovery or iPhone Data Recovery Mac, providing three ways to recover deleted data like contacts, SMS, photos, videos, Safari bookmarks, call history, note, Calendar and more from iPhone, you are allowed to extracting to recover from the iTunes or iCloud backup files, or recover them directly from the iPhone, since you are wondering about the way without the using of iTunes backup, you can choose a kind of iPhone Data Recovery software to recover your data in a few steps and it is very easy and fast, you can have a try!
Free download and install it on your Computer below. This free trial version allows you to extract and preview all the iPhone content in details.
3 Efficient Ways to Restore Deleted Messages from iPhone
iPhone Data Recovery allows you to scan your iPhone 6/5S/5C/5/4S/4/3GS, asl well as iPad and iPod directly to find all the lost files recently, or recover lost data from your inaccessible device.
Note: Don't use your device and sync your device with iTunes after you lost data from it. Any operation on your device can generate new data, which can overwrite your lost data and make it unrecoverable.
Part 1: Recover Lost Data from iPhone Directly
Step 1. Connect your iOS Device to the Computer
Download, install and run iOS Data Recovery. Connect your iPhone/iPad/iPod to the computer via a USB cable. Then you'll get the following interface.
Step 2. Enter DFU Mode to Scan your Device
Before scanning your device for lost data, please follow the steps below to get into DFU mode.
1) Hold your device and click "Start" button in the interface of iPhone/iPad/iPod Recovery.
2) Hold "Power" and "Home" buttons on your device at the same time for exact 10 seconds. The Software will count time for you. Just hold the two buttons immediately after step 1.
3) When 10 seconds passed, release the "Power" button right away, but keep holding the "Home" button. After another 10 seconds, you'll be informed that you've successfully entered the DFU mode and you can release the "Home" button now.
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| directly recover deleted data from iPhone |
Step 3. Preview and Selectively Recover Files
After the scan, all found data are displayed in categories, like contacts, messages, message attachments, call history, camera roll, photo stream, photo library, calendar, notes, reminders, voice memos and safari bookmark. You can preview full contents of all of them one by one.
Part 2: Recover Previous Data by Extracting it from iTunes Backup
Step 1. Choose the backup and extract it
After installing the software on your computer, launch it then. Click "Recover from iTunes Backup File" on the top of the window. All iTunes backup files will be scanned out and listed in categories for you. Choose the one for your iPhone and click "Start Scan" to extract it.
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| extract to recover from iTunes backup files |
Step 2. Preview and recover photos lost from your iPhone 5s/5c/5/4S
When the scan is over, all found data are displayed in categories. For example, you can choose Messages, Camera Roll or Photo Stream to preview the SMS, photos in your iTunes backup. Choose the wanted ones, and click "Recover" to save them on your computer.
Part 3: Recover Previous Data by Extracting it from iCloud Backup
Step 1. Install the program and sign your iCloud account
First of all, run the program and choose "Recover from iCloud Backup File", and sign in your iCloud account as it requires.
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| extract to recover from iCloud backup files |
Step 2. Download and export your iCloud backup
After entering the program, you are provided the backup files of your iCloud backup account automatically. Choose any data you want to recover by clicking "Download" button. The whole progress of downloading depends on the amount of your data. When it's complete, click the same button to start extracting, and you'll get a interface as below.
Step 3. Preview and restore iPhone from iCloud
You can take a preview of the data you get after the scanning, such as contacts, photos, messages, notes, videos, etc. You can choose any data that you'd like to restore by ticking it.
Related Tutorials:
How to Restore Deleted Contacts from iPhone or Backup
How to Recover Deleted Call History from iPhone or Backup
How to Restore Lost SMS from iPhone After iOS 9 update
