When iPhone 6 released, many old iPhone users update their old iPhone 3/4/4S to iPhone 6. But for some people, they suffered the unfortunate data loss like the below:
“Had an iPhone 4 for a few years, backed it up frequently. My parents back at home bought and activated a new iPhone 6 for me, keeping my same number. For two weeks all messages sent to my number went to my iPhone 6 instead of my 4. When I finally got home and checked my 6, I saw over 70 messages waiting for me. I backed up my iPhone 4 and then synced that data onto my iPhone 6. Once that transfer was finished however, I noticed my inbox now contained only messages from my 4, the 70 new ones from my 6 were nowhere to be found. Is there any way of getting these messages back?”
In this case, if you didn’t restore your iPhone 6, you can recover the lost message from iPhone 6 directly since any new data add on iPhone 6 can restore your iPhone 6 and make you can’t find the message back any more. Or if you have ever enabled automatic backing up with iTunes, there should be an iTunes backup file for your new iPhone 6, you can recover the lost messages from your iTunes backup file. But if you directly recover the lost message from iTunes, your current data on iPhone 6 will be covered by older iTunes backup. So you need to selectively recover lost message from iTunes.
No matter you want to recover the lost message from iPhone 6 directly or selective get the message back from iTunes backup, both of the cases need a third party tool - iPhone Data Recovery tool.
Wondershare Dr.Fone for iOS is a good iPhone Data Recovery that can help you extract the data you want from iTunes backup and recover contacts, message, call history, FB Message, from iPhone directly.(review)
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Here is the way to recover lost message from iPhone 6:
> Install and run Wondershare Dr.Fone for iOS on your computer.
Note: Wondershare Dr.Fone for iOS for Mac is available for both Windows and Mac, please choose the right version to download and install.
> Connect your iPhone 6 to computer.
> Click “ Start Scan” on the startup interface after being recognized.
> Choose messages to scan and analyze selectively.
> Wait until the data analyzing process completes.
> Select the deleted messages and then click “Recover to Device”.
Here is the way to recover selectively lost message from iTunes:
> Install and run Dr.Fone for iOS.
> Choose the recovery mode of “Recover from iTunes Backup”.
> Select an iTunes backup file from which you want to extract all your messages only.
> Choose Messages to scan and analyze selectively.
> Wait until the messages and contacts analyzing is finished.
> Preview all the extracted messages and select what ever you need to recover to computer or recover to your device directly.
If you want to recover other data like notes, reminders, you also can follow the way.
Related Software:
Wondershare Dr.Fone for Android - First aid to recover deleted or lost contacts, text messages, photos, videos, audio files, documents, whatsapp history, call history, etc from Android phones and tablets.
Wondershare MobileTrans - One click and risk-free solution to move contacts, text messages, call logs, calendar, photos, music, video and apps between iPhone, Android, Blackberry and Nokia(Symbian) phones.
Wondershare TunesGo - Transfer and copy music, videos, playlists and other media files from iPhone, iPad and iPod touch to iTunes and PC with no difficulty.
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