This might surprise you, but if you ever wanted to find and recover a deleted text message on iOS 15, there was really no way. The only thing you could do is hope you had a backup with that specific text, and then restore your iPhone, but that's an arduous and laborious process -- for what should be a simple task Show
Fortunately that's now been simplified with iOS 16. Instead of dealing with restoring a backup, you can now find the deleted texts on your device and recover them into the Messages app with just a few taps. The process is simple, but you need to know where to look before you can recover any deleted text messages. Here's how. Don't miss: Use This Hidden iPhone Feature to Draw Perfectly on Your Screenshots And if you're interested in other lesser-known features for the iPhone, here are 7 hidden iOS 16 features we were surprised to find and how to unlock your iPhone's hidden trackpad. First find your deleted text messagesAll of your deleted text messages can be found in the Messages app. To find your trashed messages, open Messages and tap the Filters option in the top left of your text threads. Here you can filter your text messages by known senders, unread messages and more. However, the option we want is Recently Deleted. You only have 30 days to recover a deleted text message. Nelson Aguilar/CNETA list of your recently text messages will appear, showing phone numbers or contacts, number of messages and days left until permanent deletion. This will include both entire message threads and individual texts that are deleted. However, you'll be able to see (and recover) deleted messages only if they've been deleted in the last 30 days, so you have to act relatively fast. Also, you can't see the actual messages themselves, so you'll have to recover them by recognizing the contact name or phone number. Once recovered, you'll then be able to read the texts. Then recover your deleted text messagesIf you want to recover a text message, tap on the thread or message so that it's selected, hit Recover on the bottom right, and then tap Recover Message in the pop-up that appears. You can also recover all of your deleted text messages at once -- don't select any message and then just tap Recover All. You can also recover all deleted text messages at once. Nelson Aguilar/CNETYour recovered text messages will appear in sequential order from when they were either sent or received, so you may have to scroll a bit through your existing texts to find them, especially if they're old and you have a great deal of new messages cluttering up your inbox. Check out 4 annoying iOS 16 features you can fix right now and everything you need to know about the new battery percentage icon in the status bar. In iOS 16, Apple has brought some welcome updates to its stock Messages app. One of these is the ability to recover messages you have deleted from conversations. Keep reading to learn how it works. Here's how to recover a deleted message on an iPhone or iPad running iOS 16 or iPadOS 16.
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