# iPhone - any way to recover deleted text message? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 17, 2013, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iphone-any-way-to-recover-deleted-text-message/671493 "2013-10-17T16:09:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2013, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iphone-any-way-to-recover-deleted-text-message/671493/1 "2013-10-17T16:09:13Z")
Aargh! I went to open a chain of text messages and accidentally swiped delete! Any way to recover the chain of texts ? ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2013, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iphone-any-way-to-recover-deleted-text-message/671493/2 "2013-10-17T17:34:41Z")
When was the last time you synced your phone? If it was recently, your texts will be available in your backup. [Here’s some discussion.](http://www.mydigitallife.info/how-to-restore-sms-text-messages-only-to-iphone-itunes-without-jailbreak/) ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2013, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iphone-any-way-to-recover-deleted-text-message/671493/3 "2013-10-18T00:52:09Z")
Not to worry. The NSA has a copy of every keystroke your computer, tablet or smartphone has ever made. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![meskini89](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a587f6/32.png) [@meskini89](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meskini89)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2013, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iphone-any-way-to-recover-deleted-text-message/671493/6 "2013-10-26T04:04:58Z")
Hi, here i will show you a video tutorial to do this. it’s name is dr.fone for ios. Watch this: [- YouTube](http://youtube.com/watch?v=tlFnl0KKx4I) It can help you recover deleted files more than text messages. ---
**Author:** ![AndreSchotte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/82dd89/32.png) [@AndreSchotte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AndreSchotte)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2013, 9:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iphone-any-way-to-recover-deleted-text-message/671493/7 "2013-12-26T09:04:33Z")
Even if you select the option in your phone to delete all content it doesn’t really work like that. The data is still just marked as deleted on your drive so your phone will overwrite it. It’s done like this on Windows computers as well so you’re not sitting around waiting for a while just to delete one message. Nothing really to worry about too much the data will eventually be overwritten properly. You can save yourself the bother and just don’t send anything you wouldn’t want people to see. And when your phone freaks out and deletes messages you wanted to keep this is way more of a blessing than a curse! ---
**Author:** ![nevadaexile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb8c5e/32.png) [@nevadaexile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nevadaexile)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2014, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iphone-any-way-to-recover-deleted-text-message/671493/10 "2014-02-14T03:31:23Z")
Is Sprint is your cellular provider, you can log onto [sprint.com](http://sprint.com) and read your text messages. I believe that this is only good for 60 days though. ---
**Author:** ![bahimes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@bahimes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bahimes)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2014, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iphone-any-way-to-recover-deleted-text-message/671493/11 "2014-02-14T08:31:10Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > Not to worry. The NSA has a copy of every keystroke your computer, tablet or smartphone has ever made. 😉 If you “need help fast”, the Freedom of Information Act may take awhiile. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2014, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iphone-any-way-to-recover-deleted-text-message/671493/14 "2014-07-04T03:17:03Z")
Reported.