How to Recover Messages from iPhone Backup

iPhone messages are significant part of our life and many people choose to make backup of them to iTunes or iCloud. We know that iTunes and iCloud backup can not be viewed or accessed, you have to perform a whole restore that means the existing texts, contacts, notes and more will be replaced. How to recover messages from iPhone backup?

iRefone is all you need. It is an iPhone data recovery tool as well as an iTunes/iCloud backup extractor that helps recover iPhone messages. This post will guide you with step-by-step instructions to recover messages from iPhone backup.

Key Features of iRefone:

-Support to recover up to 16+ kinds of data including messages, notes, contacts, photos, videos, whatsapp, wechat and so on.
-Enable to recover deleted/lost data directly from iOS device, as well as iTunes and iCloud backup
-Selectively extract data from iPhone backup
-100% safe without losing data



Part 1: How to Recover iPhone 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 interface.



Step 2: Choose the data you want to scan and recover. Click the icon of “Messages” to start the scanning.



Step 3: When the scanning is finished, preview the 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.



Part 2: How to Recover iPhone Messages from iCloud Backup

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



Step 2: Choose the data you want to recover in your iCloud. 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 Messages you need in your iCloud backup file.



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