How to Recover iPhone WeChat Messages

WeChat, as one of most popular social chat app in China, has becoming more and more popular all over the world. People use it to keep in touch with their families and friends. With this app, our life become more convenient and easy. But, accidents are always around us. It would be a headache that you lost some WeChat messages due to deleted, lost or stolen iPhone, failure of upgrade and jailbreak, etc, just like you lost the message on your iPhone. Once you lost these WeChat messages on iPhone, do you want to find a way to recover iPhone WeChat messages?

Generally speaking, deleted messages on iPhone could be recovered, as well as WeChat messages. According to WeChat, the message in WeChat are not stored on the server. That means these WeChat messages are stored directly on your iPhone. Once you deleted or lost them, they are just marked as “deleted” which are invisible to you. But you could recover WeChat messages on iPhone with some iPhone WeChat messages recovery software.

To recover iPhone WeChat messages, iRefone is the first and best choice for you. This professional iPhone WeChat Messages recovery software could help you recover WeChat messages which lost due to any reasons. It can recover iPhone WeChat messages directly from iPhone as well as iTunes and iCloud backup.

As the desktop software, it provides the Windows version and Mac version for you to choose. Now we will show you three ways of how to use iRefone to recover WeChat data. First, just choose the version you need to download and install iRefone. We will take the windows version as a example.



Method 1: Recover WeChat Messages directly from iPhone

Step 1: Run iRefone and connect iPhone with computer. Click on “Start” button.



Step 2: Then it will bring you to a interface to ask you choose the data you want to scan. Choose and click on the “WeChat Messages” icon. The software will automatically scan and analysis your device when you click on the icon. The scanning time depends on the database in your iPhone. Just wait patiently for the scanning.



Step 3: When the scanning is finished. All of the messages of your WeChat will be displayed, including these deleted one. Select these messages you need and click on “Recover to PC” to save these WeChat messages on your computer.



Method 2: Recover WeChat Messages from iTunes Backup

Step 1: Launch iRefone and choose “Recover from iTunes Backup” as the recovery mode. All of the iTunes backup files which you have ever synced with iTunes on this computer will be automatically found and listed in the software. Click “Select” or double click the backup you need to access the data.



Step 2: Choose the WeChat Messages icon to start the scanning.



Step 3: When the scanning is finished, preview the WeChat messages in your iTunes backup and pick out these messages you need to save on your computer. Click “Recover to PC” to choose the store folder.



Method 3: Recover WeChat Messages from iCLloud Backup

Step 1: Choose “Recover from iCloud Backup” to recover WeChat messages. Sign in your iCloud account with Apple ID and passcode.



Step 2: Choose the data you want to recover in your WeChat. This process will reduce the time of downloading. The less data you choose, the less time wait for the downloading.



Step 3: When the downloading process is stopped, you can click the icon of WeChat Messages in your iCloud backup file.



Step 4: You could preview all of your WeChat messages in iCloud backup. Select these messages you need to backup them on your computer.