How to Recover Text Messages from iPhone in iOS 16

[Summary]: Erase all important messages on iPhone after iOS 16 upgrade or jailbreak? Accidentally deleting messages on your iPhone? Your iPhone was stolen and want to recover iPhone messages from iTunes backup files? More and more people use iPhone with iOS 16,today let's teach you how to recover deleted important text messages from your iPhone on iOS 16.

Lost Text Messages on iPhone After Upgrading to iOS 16

More and more people update their iPhone 13/12/11/XS/XR/X to iOS 16 operation system,but after upgrading the idevices to the iOS 16 or iOS 15,it may erase all text messaegs on iPhone.However,many iPhone users ask “is it possible to restore SMS from iPhone after upgrading to iOS 16?” “how to recover iPhone text messages lost after iOS 16 upgrade?” Don't worry,this article teach you how to use a powerful iOS 16 Data Recovery tool to restore lost or deleted text messages from iPhone with iOS 16/iOS 15/ iOS 14.

After updating to the latest version of iOS 16, many iPhone users found that the text messages stored in their iPhone get lost randomly. If you have lost many imessages, text messages in your iPhone, you can restore your iPhone with the backup you have created with iTunes. After restoring the backup to your iPhone, you may get the lost text messages back. In additional,After update iPhone to iOS 16 losing any contacts, nots, photo, apps? Many iPhone users lost data after update iPhone to iOS 16. However, If you want to recover data from iPhone with iOS 16/iOS 15, you need to use a third iOS data recovery.

Recover Lost iPhone SMS after iOS 16,iOS 15 Upgrade

To recover lost text messages on iPhone with iOS 16 in three different ways:"Recover iPhone SMS from iTunes Backup File";"Directly Scan and Recover Text Messages from iPhone";and "Recover lost SMS from iCloud";.If you have sync iPhone to iCloud,you can get lost data backup from iCloud.

If these simple methods cannot bring your lost data back, you still have another choice. Check out this iPhone Data Recovery – iOS 16 Data Recovery and it will help you restore lost SMS from iPhone after iOS update. This software is used for recovering deleted or lost files from iOS devices and iTunes backups, and the software also helps users backup iPhone, iPad and iPod touch files to computer. The software works perfectly with the latest version of iOS 16, iOS 15, iOS 14, so you take advantage of it with no worries. The following guidance will show you how to recover SMS from iPhone 13/12/11/XS/XR/X/8 with iOS 16.

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Part 1: Recover Lost iPhone Text Messages after iOS Upgrade

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: Extracting and Recover Lost iPhone SMS from iTunes Backup Files

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.

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Part 3: Backup iPhone Text Messages to Computer Before iOS Update

iOS Data Manager (iPhone Data Transfer) is the best iPhone data backup software for you to transfer text messages from iPhone to computer easily and quickly, all your SMS can be saved as HTML, XML, TXT files, in addition, all the iPhone exported text message attached files are retained. What's more, the program fully compatible with iOS 16/iOS 15, and support iPhone 13&iPhone 12, iPhone 11 & iPhone XS.

Step 1. Install and run the transfer program
After downloading, install and launch the program on your computer, then you can see the primary window of the iPhone Data Transfer.

Step 2 .Connect your iPhone to your computer
Then take out your Apple USB cable to connect your iPhone with the computer, once your device is detected, you can see a window as the picture below.



Step 3. Transfer iPhone Text Messages to computer
Now, you are allowed to click the "SMS" tab in the sidebar, and all the found text messages will be shown on the right side. Mark those what you want to transfer, or tick off the rectangle before "Content" to choose all, click on "Export to", after choosing "Export selected SMS to computer" or "Export all SMS to computer", the program will automaticall export the selected SMS to your PC.



Note: The program can save text messages, MMS & iMessages with attachments, you can choose to save your messages in HTML/XML/TXT file on your PC for easy viewing at a later time. Besides, if you connect more than one iPhone or other iOS device to iPhone Data Transfer, you can directly sync the selected messages from one iPhone to another with a click.

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What's more about iOS Data Recovery:

The iOS Data Recovery for Mac and iOS Data Recovery for Windows,both Complete Solutions to Recover Lost and Deleted Data from iPhone, iPad & iPod Touch with a Click.

iPhone/iPad/iPod Data Recovery, safely, quickly and efficiently restore lost & deleted contacts, messages, photos, notes and much more from iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.

-Newly support iOS 16, iOS 15, iOS 14, iPhone 13
-Directly scanning to recover 8 kinds of deleted data from iPhone 13/12/11/XS/XR/X/8, iPod touch 7, iPad, The new iPad, iPad with Retina display & iPad mini.
-Directly scanning to restore 15 kinds of deleted data from iPhone, iPod touch and iPad.
-Extracting to recover data for all iDevices from iTunes & iCloud backup.
-A variety of data loss situations supported, including accidental or intentional deletion, device damage or system crash, factory setting festore, broken device, system crash, ROM flashing, etc.