How to Recover Deleted Picture Messages on iPhone?

Q: How to recover deleted picture messages on iPhone? I deleted a text with a lot of photos on it and need to recover deleted iMessage photos. How can I make it?

–A user from Apple Communities

Users always mistakenly deleted some important messages from their iPhones, not only because they need more iPhone storage space, but it is indeed necessary to clear some useless info from the phone. However, there are many reasons why your pictures disappeared from your iPhone messages and unexpected things happen every day, so that no matter how careful you are, you might sometimes delete some messages that you don’t want to remove. In some cases, you may not mean to recover your text messages information, but its attachment, such as iMessage photos. Well, how to recover deleted photos from iPhone messages?

To recover deleted picture messages on iPhone, there are 3 options for you. As your iPhone text pictures might be stored in your iPhone backup, the most 2 popular methods are to recover deleted iMessage photos on iPhone from iCloud or iTunes backup. Nevertheless, recovering from backup comes with several serious drawbacks as well:

1. You can’t view and selectively decide which photos to restore but only blindly restore the whole backup files.
2. This restoration would bring the consequence that all your current data on the iPhone will be replaced by the backup data, which may cause new data loss.
3. You’re not allowed to check the backup details, if you choose the wrong backup, you will lose more. You will lose both the lost iPhone message photos and all your iPhone’s existing data.

That’s why some users don’t choose to recover deleted photos from text messages iPhone via iCloud or iTunes backup. As a matter of fact, there is a third alternative, professional iOS data recovery tool – Phonerescue for iOS, which overcomes all the disadvantages of traditional restoring. Both pictures and text conversions can be recovered with ease.

It can help you access and view details of your backup data and enable you to preview and selectively recover deleted photos from iPhone messages according to your needs. More importantly, if you have no backup, you can also use it to scan and recover data from your iPhone without backup.

Method 1. Recover Deleted Picture Messages on iPhone without Backup

If you have no backup or not sure whether your backup contains the deleted data or not, then, you can follow the steps below to scan and recover lost text messages or message images from your iPhone directly.

Step 1. Run PhoneRescue for iOS

Download and install PhoneRescue for iOS on your Mac or PC computer > Open it > Connect your iPhone to the computer and select Recover from iOS Device mode.

Step 2. Scan the Deleted Messages and Message Photos on Your iPhone

Now, you need to unselect all the data it has chosen, only select Messages and click OK.

Step 3. Recover Deleted Picture Messages on iPhone

Click the Message Attachment and select the photos you want to recover > Click To Device button or To Computer button according to your needs.

Method 2. Recover Deleted Picture Messages on iPhone from iTunes Backup

Follow steps below to selectively restore only photos on iPhone text messages from iTunes backup without erasing the current data.

Step 1. Free Install and Launch PhoneRescue for iOS

Also, download and install PhoneRescue for iOS on your computer > Select Recover from Backup mode and click the arrow button to proceed.

Step 2. Scan Your iPhone Backup

Select one backup contains the lost messages you want to recover > Select Messages and click OK to scan backup data.

Step 3. Recover Deleted Photos from iPhone Messages from iTunes

Click the Message Attachment and select the photos you want to recover afterward click the Recover button.

Method 3. Recover Deleted Picture Messages on iPhone from iCloud Backup

Step 1. Run PhoneRescue for iOS

Download and launch PhoneRescue for iOS on your computer > Select Recover from iCloud > Click the arrow button to continue.

Step 2. Select iCloud Backup

In this step, you need to sign in with your Apple ID at first, and then select the iCloud Backup to go on recovery.

Step 3.  Scan the iCloud Backup

Select one backup contains the lost messages > Click Download > Select Messages > Click OK button to download and scan backup data.

Step 4. Recover Deleted Photos from iPhone Messages from iCloud

Click the Message Attachment > Preview and select the photos you want to recover > Click the Recover button.

How to Recover Deleted Picture Messages on iPhone from iCloud Backup

Also, if you find out your text messages pics are contained in the iCloud backup, you can go on resetting your iPhone and restore them from the iCloud backup. How to restore text message pics from iCloud backup on iPhone? Keep on reading and figure the steps out.

Step 1. Check the iCloud Backup

Open iCloud and go to Settings > Storage > Manage Storage. Here you can view the saved backup. Make sure you have the backup which contains all the Text Messages pics you want to recover.

Step 2. Restore iPhone to Factory Settings

Go to Settings > General > Reset. Here select the Erase All Content & Settings option. Confirm and wait for the iPhone to be restored with the factory settings.

Step 3. Restore the Saved Backup

After the iPhone restarts with factory settings, you can restore the backup. Set up your iPad and restore the data from the iCloud backup. You need to log-in to your iCloud account and go to the saved backup. Now you can wait for a while and see the restoration process to complete.

The Bottom Line

That’s all for how to recover deleted pictures from iPhone text messages, hope this article can help you get your text photos back. Nobody wants data loss, so, you’d better make a backup of your important data before doing any clearing operations. Now, download PhoneRescue for iOS to retrieve your lost text-photos >