User level: Level 1 (4 points)I accidentally deleted a group message today (over 14,000 messages), and I am trying to recover it, but it won't recover. I deleted a different chat (only 5 messages) to see if this is an issue, but when I went to recover, it came back into my iMessage. Is the message file too large to recover? I turned off my phone 3 times; still nothing
I updated my phone; still nothing. I'm not sure what else I can do to bring it back. Any suggestions ?
Posted on Sep 18, 2026 6:34 PM
User level: Level 10 (205,348 points)Sep 19, 2026 4:14 PM in response to Friedapples_
Friedapples_ wrote:
I accidentally deleted a group message today (over 14,000 messages), and I am trying to recover it, but it won't recover. I deleted a different chat (only 5 messages) to see if this is an issue, but when I went to recover, it came back into my iMessage. Is the message file too large to recover? I turned off my phone 3 times; still nothing
I updated my phone; still nothing. I'm not sure what else I can do to bring it back. Any suggestions ?
Maybe have some patience and wait.
Don't have patience use your backup to restore the messages.
Originally posted at discussions.apple.com/thread/256360120