How to Recover SMS messages from iPhone X

How to recover deleted SMS/text messages from iPhone X

You can restore the iphone data, iphone data recovery and recovery is almost not the same, IPhone used instead of the traditional hard disk, recover a lot of trouble, and now can do this recovery rarely, but a professional iPhone data recovery software can recover deleted text messages. There are two ways to restore the SMS is restored from a backup in iTunes, one is directly from the iPhone in recovery.

So much to say how much, in a word, you can recover iphone SMS, just like a traditional hard disk can not be recovery.

There are lots of people asking for help to recover deleted messages. In fact, there's a way to recover deleted SMS directly from iPhone. Also, if you've ever synced your iPhone with iTunes before, there is also another way: to recover from iTunes backup for all iPhones including iPhone. You just need the help from an iPhone text message recovery tool.

Recover iPhone SMS with iPhone SMS recovery software

You must download a professional iPhone data recovery software first: iPhone/iPad/iPod Data Recovery (Mac) (for Mac users), or iPhone/iPad/iPod Data Recovery (for Windows users). This is an excellent iPhone data recovery software, which can recover contacts, messages & attachments, call history, notes & attachments, calendar, reminder, Safari's bookmark, photos, video, app's videos, app's documents, voice memos, voicemail. It works for all iPhones, including the latest iPhone 11.

Download the free trial version below to take a try. Choose the right version for your computer.

   

Next, let's try to recover deleted messages from iPhone with iPhone Data Recovery for Windows. If you're a Mac user, please read the guide here: How to recover iPhone SMS on Mac.

Part 1: Directly recover deleted photos from iPhone

Step 1. Connect iOS Device with Computer

Use the USB cable that comes with your iOS device to connect your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch, to your computer. Then launch Dr.Fone on your computer and choose "Data Recovery".

Once the program detects your device, it will show you the window as follows.

Tips: Before running Dr.Fone, you're supposed to download the latest version of iTunes. To avoid the automatically sync, don't launch iTunes when running Dr.Fone. I suggest you to disable the automatical syncing in iTunes beforehand: launch iTunes > Preferences > Devices, check “Prevent iPods, iPhones, and iPads from syncing automatically”.

Step 2. Scan Your Device for Lost Data on It

Simply click the "Start Scan" button to let this program scan your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch to scan for deleted or lost data. The scanning g process may last a few minutes, depending on the amount of data on your device. During the scanning process, if you see that the data you're looking for is there, then you can click the "Pause" button to stop the process.

Step 3. Preview and Recover the Scanned Data

The scan will take you some time. Once it's completed, you can see a scan result generated by the program. Data both lost and existing on your device are displayed in categories. To filter out the deleted data on your iOS device, you can swipe the option "Only display the deleted items" to ON. By clicking the file type in the left side, you can preview the found data. And you can see there is a search box on the top right of the window. You can search for a specific file by typing a keyword in the search box. Then save the data to your computer or your device by clicking the recovery button.

Tips: About recovering data

When you find the data you need, just put the check mark in front of the box to select them. After then, click the "Recover" button at the bottom right of the window. By default, the recovered data will be saved to your computer. As for text messages, iMessage, contacts, or notes, when you click Recover, a pop-up will ask you to "Recover to Computer" or "Recover to Device". If you want to put these messages back to your iOS device, click "Recover to Device".

Part 2: Scan and extract iTunes backup to recover iPhone SMS

Step 1. Choose Recovery Mode

Launch Dr.Fone and click "Data Recovery".

Then choose "Recover iOS Data".

You can see three options on the side here. Choose "Recover from iTunes Backup File". After then, the iTunes backup recovery tool will detect all iTunes backup files on this computer and display them in the window. You can confirm which one is the one you need according to the date it has been created.

Step 2. Scan Data from iTunes Backup File

Choose the iTunes backup file that contains the data you want to recover and click "Start Scan". It will take a few minutes to extract all data from the iTunes backup file. Be patient.

Step 3. Preview and Recover Data from iTunes Backup

After a few seconds, all data in the backup file will be extracted and displayed in categories. You can preview them one by one before recovery. Then you can selectively mark and recover those you want by pressing the "Recover" button at the bottom. Now contacts, notes and messages can be directly recovered to your iOS device if you keep your iOS device connected with your computer via a USB cable during the recovery process.

Tips: you can see there is a search box in the result window. From there, you can type in the name of a file to search for it.

Tips: What if your iTunes backup file is located somewhere else?

When your iTunes backup file comes from somewhere, such as moved from another computer with a USB drive, how can you preview and get the content from it? There is a way. When you are at the first step, click "Select" under the list of iTunes backup files, and you can flexibly choose the iTunes backup file no matter where you place it.

Then in the pop-up window, preview and target your iTunes backup file. Then click "Start Scan" and you can move on with the step 2 above. It's pretty useful feature.

   

Note:Dr.Fone for iOS support English, German, French, Italian,Spanish and Portuguese

If you want to recover iPhone lost Contacts,you can read this use guide about how to recover iPhone Contacts from iPhone.

If you use Mac and iPhone,and you need to recover iPhone SMS messages from Mac,you can read this use guides about how to recover SMS from iphone  in Mac?