iPhone SMS Contacts Recovery: Hoe to Recover deleted iPhone sms messages

Have you deleted your iPhone messages and want to get them back? When SMS are deleted on the iDevice, they are not removed entirely from the file. Instead, the file space the sms was allocated is released for recycling into new data. Although sms is deleted from the database store, and thus can't be restored fully, for a short time it is possible to retrieve these orphaned data.

Recover deleted iPhone sms messages

Recover deleted iPhone sms messages, which is a easy-to-use iOS data recovery to recover data from iPhone/iPad/iPod,you can use this iPhone data recovery program to recover deleted or lost messages, photos, contacts, videos, notes and so forth in three solutions. You can take a look at the detailed tutorial below to recover deleted text messages on iPhone step by step.

First of all, you download the corresponding version first

Recover deleted iPhone sms messages

Step 1. Connect your iPhone to computer
Launch the program and connect your iPhone to computer. Then it will begin to detect your iPhone automatically. The interface for iPhone 5S/5C/5/4S and iPhone 4/3GS will be a little different:

1) For iPhone 5S/5C/5/4S, users only need to click "Start Scan" button shown in the window below to start scanning your iPhone data:

Recover deleted iPhone sms messages

2) For iPhone 4/3GS, you need to download a plug-in by clicking the "Download" button as follows:

Recover deleted iPhone sms messages

After downloading, please follow the instructions here to scan your iPhone:

a. Hold your iPhone and click the "Start" button in the window.
b. Press the "Power" and "Home" buttons simultaneously for 10 seconds.
c. After 10 seconds, release the "Power" button, and keep holding "Home" for another 15 seconds.

Recover deleted iPhone sms messages

Step 2. Preview and recover lost messages from iPhone
After scanning, it will display all found data and files in categories as below. You can then choose the SMS messages you want to recover and then restore them to computer by clicking "Recover" button.

Recover deleted iPhone sms messages

Note: Data found here includes deleted data and those still in your iPhone. If you only need the deleted ones, you can refine the scan result by using the slide button at bottom to display deleted items only.

Solution 2: Recover SMS from iTunes Backup for iPhone

Step 1. Select recovery mode as iTunes backup file
Choose "Recover from iTunes Backup File" mode after launching iPhone Data Recovery.

Step 2. Extract iTunes backup file and scan
All your iTunes backup files will be found and displayed here. Choose the one for your iPhone and click "Start Scan".

Step 3. Preview and recover messages on your iPhone
Once the scanning finished, all the backup files will be listed and displayed in categories. Check the "Messages" option and hit the "Recover" to save all the SMS on your computer.