How to Retrieve Deleted Voicemails on iPhone or iTunes Backup

Question: 
"Can I recover deleted voicemails on my iPhone?"
Answer: 
Most of voicemails just sit there on iPhone serving as extra "missed call"notifications, letting you know to call or text back whoever bothered to leave you the message in the first place. But every once in a while, some voicemail messages become important and special to you. Maybe your friend leaves you a Happy Birthday recording when you are asleep in the early morning. Or maybe you wanna save the voicemails from a beloved family member who just passed away. Luckly, it's possible to retrieve deleted or lost voicemails on iPhone. Here are two options for you. One is to restore deleted voicemails on its page. Another is to use voicemail recovery software.

Option 1: Undelete Voicemails on the Phone App
Actually, visual voicemail on iPhone features a Deleted Messages folder, which has the ability to restore deleted voice mails. Just follow those steps which are simple and painless:

1. Open the Phone app on your iPhone and tap Voicemail at the right bottom of screen.
2. Scroll down to the bottom of Voicemail page. There you will see an item for Deleted Messages; tap on it. If you do not see the Deleted Messages folder, please skip to the second option.
3. Supposing you have not cleared all of you voicemail messages from this location (which can be done by tapping Clear All), all of your deleted voicemails will be available to you here. 
4. Tap on the voicemail you want to reclaim and then tap Undelete.
5. You can also share the audio files of voicemail to Message, Mail, Notes or Voice Memos (only for iOS 9 or later).

Option 2: Recover Deleted Voicemails from iPhone or iTunes Backup
If you are lucky to have recently backed up your iPhone data with iTunes, there's a big chance to retrieve deleted deleted voicemails with Voicemail Recovery software. Like Free iPhone Recovery tool, it helps you to access voicemail (including the deleted ones) either from iPhone or from an iTunes backup file. Just download it and follow these steps to recover and save voicemails to computer:

 
1. Launch the iPhoneRecovery tool on PC or Mac; Check the box of Voicemail and then go to the Next.
2. Connect your iPhone to computer. Or directly go Next to select an iTunes backup file in order to scan voicemails from it
3. Preview & select the voicemails, then click Recover to save and export them onto computer.

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[iMessage Recovery]How to Recover Deleted or Old iMessages for Free

If you've ever sent a text message on iPhone, you most probably know about iMessage, a WhatsApp-type messaging app. It is Apple's means of free chats using Wi-Fi or cellular data to send text, photo, video or voice messages. iMessages can be sent between iOS devices and Macs that run iMessage app. They are indicated by blue bubbles while texts' are green. More and more Apple users now prefer to chatting with friends via iMessage. With hundreds of messages, you may find some of your old iMessages were missing or deleted by accident. Is there any way to recover deleted/old iMessages on iPhone or iPad? Yes! Just read on and follow these tutorials to retrieve deleted iMessages for free.

Tutorial 1: Recover deleted iMessages with freeware

Actually, the iMessages you just deleted still store in the database of your iPhone/iPad before they are erased by new messages. Therefore, you'd better use third-party software for iMessage Recovery when you realize some important iMessages were lost. Free iPhone Recovery is such an iMessage Recovery tool you need. Just download it and have a try!

• Step 1: Run the iMessage Recovery software on Win or Mac computer; Select Messages and Message Attachments.
• Step 2: Connect your iPhone or iPad to computer and then scan iMessages from iDevice/iTunes backup. (You can also skip to extract iMessage data from the iTunes backup file you've made before.)
• Step 3: After it finish scanning, preview and select the iMessages to save and recover on PC.

Note: Please turn on the airplane mode on your iPhone or iPad during scanning in case that you receive new messages from others.

Tutorial 2: View deleted iMessages on other Apple devices
Another solution you should think of is to find deleted iMessages from other iOS devices or Mac computers. Because iMessages will sync across any Apple device on which you have activated it with the same Apple ID before. 

• For Example, I just deleted some iMessages from my iPhone, then I simply go to my iPad or Mac and the iMessage chat history is there, too.
• You can also ask your friends you were chatting with on iMessage if they still keep the chats on their device. And then they can send back the messages or screenshots to you.

Tutorial 3: Restore deleted iMessages from iCloud/iTunes backup
As Apple says, it does Not save messages on its server, unless you use iCloud or iTunes to backup the whole data by yourself. Here is a list for what the encrypt/keep on server: iCloud security and privacy overview (remember not all of these are accessible through a web browser)If you use iCloud/iTunes backup to regularly save your old iMessages, you can restore the whole data, as will iMessages. However, this restores your whole device to that backup date selected.

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