How to Retrieve Deleted Text Messages on iPhone X/8/7/6/SE/5/4

There are actually 3 ways to recover deleted SMS text messages from an iPhone. You will need to have your laptop or computer handy for each. Messages can be retrieved straight from your phone or from an iPhone backup created in iTunes or iCloud.

Enigma Recovery, created by our in-house team of developers, is an advanced data recovery program for iPhones, iPads, iPod Touch devices and other storage devices (including SD cards). It is designed to mirror rather than extract deleted data from your device, allowing you to recover deleted files in minutes without the risk of any damage to your device.

Enigma Recovery™

Enigma Recovery is the safest and easiest iOS data recovery method, promising no damage to your devices or existing iOS data. Download Enigma Recovery now and follow the steps below, to learn how you can recover, restore, backup and transfer deleted or lost messages from your iPhone.

Recover Deleted Messages Straight from iPhone

Step 1 – Download and install Enigma Recovery

From your laptop or computer, download the iPhone data recovery software Enigma Recovery. 

Step 2 – Connect iPhone

Connect your iPhone to the computer. You may want to use your USB charger cable.

Step 3 - Trust computer

Before you can continue with the software, please trust the computer with your iPhone.

Step 4 – Scan your iPhone device

Click onto the type of data you would like to recover from your phone – ‘Messages’.

Step 5 – Scan report

The scan report that appears after the iPhone scan will let you know how much data has been found on your device. Click the Messages tab to view recovered messages.

Step 6 – View and Export messages

Now use the select boxes to collect the messages you would like to save and follow through with the ‘Export’ option.

How to Recover Deleted Messages from iTunes Backup File

Step 1 – Download and install Enigma Recovery

Download the Enigma Recovery tool to your computer and install it.

Step 2 - Recover from iTunes

On the left side menu, click on “Recover from iTunes Backup”.

Step 3 – Pick the backup file

At this point all the iTunes backup files will be available on the screen. Choose the one that contains the Messages that you wish to recover, and then hit the “Next” button.

Step 4 – Recover data

Choose what you wish to recover from the backup file. For recovering deleted iPhone messages, click on “Messages”. You can also choose to retrieve other types of data, or all of it.

Step 5 – View data

Wait for the software to extract the data from the backup file. By clicking on each type on data (on the left side bar) you can get a more detailed list of what it has been retrieved.

Step 6 – Extract data

Choose what you wish to transfer into your computer and then click on “Export”.

How to Recover Deleted Messages from iCloud Backup File

Step 1 – Open Enigma Recovery

Install the software on your computer and open it.

Step 2 – Recover Messages from iCloud backup

On the left, click on “Recover from iCloud”. Log in to you iCloud account.

Step 3 – Choose the backup file

Choose the backup file that you wish to extract Messages from.

Step 4 – Data types

Enigma Recovery can be used for all sorts of data types, as you can clearly see on the screen at this point. If you only want to recover texts and iMessages, click on “Messages” and then on “Download”.

Step 5 – Extract Messages

Allow the software to finish the recovering process. Choose the Messages that you wish to transfer into your computer and then hit the “Export” button.