[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.