Screenshot: iMobie can be really annoying. The good news is that, even if you don’t have backups of your texts, PhoneRescue can find and restore them within just a couple clicks.
Opening PhoneRescue brings you to a welcome screen that includes some key warnings. Make sure you’re not running iTunes, for example, and that no system-cleaning software is operating.
Afterward, you can recover from an iOS device, iTunes or iCloud, or use PhoneRescue’s iOS Repair Tools. (Turn to the if your iPhone or iPad is stuck on a black screen, white screen, Apple logo or the dreaded restart loop. With two modes, Standard and Advanced, this feature will updated your device to the latest version of iOS, either with all data completely erased not — your choice.) If you haven’t installed apps or run a restore on your phone, recovering from iOS device is the easiest choice. Luckily, when you delete a message, it leaves behind a kind of digital ghost version of itself.
So assuming you haven’t overwritten the data, the texts are still in there. However, if you’ve overwritten data, you’ll probably want to restore from an iTunes backup or iCloud. Once PhoneRescue is running, you decide which types of iOS data you want to recover.
Screenshot: iMobie Either way, clicking through brings you to a list of previous backups. From there, a simple menu shows all the kinds of files and data you can restore. Once you select “texts,” for example, PhoneRescue will perform a scan of your backups, then present them like a Finder window, previews and all. You can actually read the text exchanges before restoring them to your phone or computer. Just click the appropriate icon and voila, you’ve got your texts back.