How to Recover iPhone Messages Attachments

“I deleted a group of text messages with attached photos by mistake from my iPhone 7. After doing a restore from my most recent backup, the text messages are restored, but many of the attachments can not be back to my iPhone due to some reasons. So I want to ask how can I recover these iPhone messages attachments from backup?”

iPhone Messages app not only allows user to send and receive text messages, but also attachments like pictures, videos, audios, etc. Due to some solutions, you may delete or lost these messages attachments on iPhone. Then how can you recover these iPhone messages attachments? Although it is not easy to recover messages attachments directly from iPhone like text messages, there is still possible to recover iPhone Messages attachments.

For iPhone Messages attachments recovery, you need the professional iPhone data recovery tool, iRefone to help you. This tool supports to recover data like messages, notes, contacts, photos, whatsapp, wechat and more. It not only help you recover data directly from iPhone, iPad and iPod, but also extract data from iTunes and iCloud backup. Before recovery, this software enables you to preview data before and selectively recover these data you need. It is fully compatible with nearly all iOS devices including the latest iPhone 7(Plus).

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How to Recover Messages Attachments from iTunes Backup

Step 1 Run iRefone and choose “Recover from iTunes Backup” as the recovery mode. There will be some backup files listed on the interface. Click on “Select” to choose the backup of iPhone you need.



Step 2 The the software will ask you choose the data you want to display and preview in the iTunes backup. Click on the icon of Messages attachments to start the scanning.



Step 3 When the scanning is finished, all of the messages attachments you choose in the iTunes backup will be displayed in the interface. Preview them one by one and pick out these messages attachments you need. Click on “Recover to PC” to extract them from iTunes backup and save them on PC.

How to Recover Messages Attachments from iTunes Backup

Step 1 Choose “Recover from iCloud Backup” as recovery mode. Then you will see the interface below. Log in to iCloud account with Apple ID and password.



Step 2 After log into iCloud account, the program can find all iCloud backup backup files in your iCloud account. Choose one iCloud backup you need to recover data and click “Download” to start the download of your iCloud backup.



Step 3 When the downloading is finished, it will ask you choose the data you want to preview, just choose Messages Attachments to start the scanning process.



Step 4 Preview these message attachments and choose these attachments you need to recover to PC.