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How to recover messages and attachments
Here's a guide to help you recover deleted text messages, iMessages, and attachments from iCloud and iTunes backups with iPhone Backup Extractor.
- Finds deleted texts, iMessages and attachments
- Works with stolen or lost iPhones
- Works with 2FA protected accounts
- Works with encrypted backups
- Allows you to preview texts
- Lets you choose which message to recover
Videos
Messages
Photos
We believe that recovering lost messages from iCloud or iTunes should be an easy and safe process. We built a data recovery tool that works with all iOS versions, and with hardened encryption changes released by Apple.
Our data recovery software is free to try. With the free edition you can try recovering up to 4 deleted messages, and play with our demo iCloud account. You can also preview chats and attachments before recovering deleted texts. When you activate your email address you also get to preview the iCloud devices associated with your iCloud email address.
The software helps you find old messages and extracts them along with attachments, from both iCloud and iTunes, even if you lost your iPhone or if you accidentally delete them. You can export messages to your computer in a nicely formatted HTML or PDF file which replicates the text messages with attachments, as you would see them on your iPhone.
Try our solution and recover deleted iMessages, texts and attachments today.
- 1. Download and install iPhone Backup Extractor. Activate your license;
- 2. Connect to an iCloud account or local iTunes backup;
- 3. Browse through discovered backups and find the messages you've deleted;
- 4. Preview and recover them one by one or recover them in bulk;
- 5. Export messages as HTML files, and save attachments to your computer.
Windows or macOS computer
iCloud backup and credentials
Or an iTunes backup and credentials
Latest iPhone Backup Extractor version
1. Install iPhone Backup Extractor and connect to a backup
Download and install the latest version iPhone Backup Extractor. From the left side menu, click on the "+" button once, then again on the "+" sign to add a local iTunes backup or an iCloud backup.
If your iPhone is plugged into to your computer, you will see it show up automatically in the sidebar. With iPhone Backup Extractor you can safely recover deleted messages from iTunes backups, including encrypted ones. You need to know your password if your backup is encrypted.
if you are adding an iCloud account, you also need to know the email address and password for your iCloud account. iPhone Backup Extractor works with 2FA. Read this article to see how to use 2FA and get a code that grants access to your iCloud backups.
The connection is SSL secured and we never store your details. We recommend enabling 2FA authentication to ensure nobody else can recover your data.
2. Browse your backups and search for deleted messages
Once connected, browse through your list of available backups, and preview contents for messages and attachments. The iCloud and iTunes backups you have made over time are listed in the right side menu. The easiest way to recovering deleted texts is to choose the most recent backup, and download it.
To download only your messages, go to the "Categories" tab, select "Messages" and download a backup of your messages on your computer.
iPhone Backup Extractor will recover all deleted SMS, texts, and iMessages available in iCloud and iTunes backups. When you are using an iCloud backup to recover deleted messages, you can only get back those texts that were sent over the past 30 days, not older.
To recover texts and messages that are older than 30 days, you need to connect your iTunes backups.
3. Extract and retrieve messages locally
After the download process is finished, you have multiple options to extract your messages. If you need to see them before extraction, use the "Preview" tab. If you need to recover them in bulk, use "Overview" mode.
You'll be asked how you want to recover the messages. Choose HTML and select a folder for messages extraction.
If the messages have videos or images attached, you will find these files in a separate “Data” folder.
1. iCloud sign-in
2. The messages are downloaded from the iCloud
3. The messages are succesfully downloaded
4. Messages extraction
5. Extract messages as HTML
6. Succesful recovery
To extract all your SMS, use the same procedure described at the third step of the iCloud method.
Full support for all iOS devices
iPhone 4, 4S, iPhone 5, 5C, iPhone SE, iPhone 6, 6S, 6S Plus, iPhone 7 and 7 Plus
All iOS's are covered
iOS 11, iOS 10, iOS 9, iOS 8, iOS 7 and lower
Compatible with all backups
Corrupted backup, Encrypted backup, iCloud backup, 2FA iCloud backup
iPhone Backup Extractor is clean of any kind of malware. Your iCloud credentials are not stored in any way on our servers.
You are currently learning about extracting and recovering text messages from iCloud or iTunes backups.
iPhone Backup Extractor can also be used to recover attached photos in messages, deleted photos sent via SMS, attached videos in iMessages, and other types of deleted messages, including deleted WhatsApp messages, deleted chat history, deleted calls, deleted contacts.
