How to Restore Deleted Messages Using iCloud

“I accidentally deleted one important messages when I was clearing up useless messages. I have synced my iPhone with iCloud, but it would be a trouble for me to recover these messages with iCloud. Can anyone teach me how to recover deleted messages using iCloud? Thanks for any help.”

Lost or deleted Messages on iPhone is the common situation for most users. Luckily, if you turn on iCloud backup, iCloud will automatically backup your iPhone over Wi-Fi, including these Messages. At this moment, you’d typically need to recover these deleted or lost Messages using iCloud. In this post, we’re going to introduce you some different methods to restore iPhone Messages using iCloud.

Method 1: Restore Deleted iPhone Messages from iCloud Backup

Step 1: Go to Settings> General> Erase All Content and Settings on your iPhone.

Step 2: All content and settings will be erased from your iPhone. Thereafter go Setup Assistant mode with a Hello screen.

Step 3: Swipe on the screen to begin the setup process on your iPhone then connect to a WiFi network.

Step 4: Tap on Restore from iCloud backup and sign in to iCloud using your own Apple ID.

Step 5: Pick on the iCloud backup for your iPhone data that you would want to recover and after some few minutes you will get your data back on your iPhone.



Method 2: Restore Deleted iPhone Messages through iCloud.com

Follow these very simple steps to access and view iCloud Backup Messages via iCloud.com

Step 1: On any browser, go to https://www.icloud.com/ and sign in to your iCloud account using your Apple ID and password.

Step 2: You should see a list of available data types. Click on the Messages data to view its contents.

Method 3: Selectively Restore iPhone Deleted Messages with iRefone

With a third-party tool such as iRefone, you can able to extract up to 16+ different types of files from iCloud backup. It supports data like messages, notes, contacts, call history, photos, videos, whatsapp, wechat and more. Besides extracting data from iPhone backup, this software also helps you recover deleted or lost data directly from iOS device.

Download the software to start the process to recover Messages from iCloud backup.



Firstly, you will have to choose the recovery mode option for “Recover from iCloud Backup”, then enter your Apple ID and password to log in to iCloud account.



Then, you 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.



Next, when the downloading is finished, it will ask you choose the data you want to preview, just click on the Messages icon.



Finally, Preview these messages in the software and choose these one you need to recover to PC or to device.

Selectively Transfer Messages from iCloud to iPad

“There are some text messages of my lost iPhone in iCloud. Now I need to access these data on my iPad. But there are also some data on my iPad which important to me that I do not want to lose them. Is it possible that I can access and selectively transfer messages from iCloud to iPad?”

As an iPhone or iPad user, once you backed up iOS content to iCloud, or created an iCloud backup, you never can retrieve or view what you had backed up unless you plan to restore your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch with them. This makes it impossible to retrieve some specific data or file from iCloud backup.

Therefore, many users wonder how to retrieve messages from iCloud, is there any way to transfer messages from iCloud without restoring iDevice, even how to selectively get messages from iCloud instead of the whole backup files, etc. In this post, we will help you figure out your problem, just keep on reading.

How to Selectively Transfer Messages from iCloud to iPad

To selectively transfer messages from iCloud to iPad, you need to choose a professional tool that can help you get what you need from iCloud backup. iRefone is such the tool you are looking for.

iRefone, is the iPhone/iPad/iPod data recovery tool which supports to recover lost data like messages, notes, contacts, call history, photos, whatsapp, wechat and more directly from iOS devices, iTunes backup and iCloud backup. Besides, it is able to extract data from iTunes backup and iCloud backup. This tool enables you to preview data before recovery and selectively recover and extract data.



Step 1. Run iRefone and connect your iPad with computer, then choose the recovery mode option for “Recover from iCloud Backup”, and enter your Apple ID and password to log in to iCloud account.



Step 2. You 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 click on the Messages icon.



Step 4. Finally, Preview these messages in the software and choose these one you need, click on “Recover to Device” to transfer these messages to your iPad.