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AppleiMac

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Aug 7, 2007
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Hello Everyone,

On Saturday I accidentally deleted a whole stream of text messages from a conversation and I'd like to recover them. (Apple should offer a password requirement option for deleting text messages...and viewing them too..hmm anyway). I looked on my iTunes backup deal in Preferences and it looks like the last backup was done on February 5th. I haven't plugged my iPhone into my computer at all since Saturday either.

So basically my question is, if I backup my iPhone from February 5th, I'll lose all my text messages from now until then right? Also, secondly is there anyway I can recover my old txts while keeping my current ones? Kind of complicated but any help would be appreciated. Thanks! :cool:
 
AppleiMac said:
(Apple should offer a password requirement option for deleting text messages...and viewing them too..hmm anyway).
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Why? Your phone has a lock code. When you attempt to delete the conversation, it prompts you to clear the conversation.

AppleiMac said:
I looked on my iTunes backup deal in Preferences and it looks like the last backup was done on February 5th. I haven't plugged my iPhone into my computer at all since Saturday either.

So basically my question is, if I backup my iPhone from February 5th, I'll lose all my text messages from now until then right? Also, secondly is there anyway I can recover my old txts while keeping my current ones? Kind of complicated but any help would be appreciated. Thanks! :cool:
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Your back is dated Feb 5th so yeah, you would only have information until Feb 5th. No way to recover your old texts, unless you pay someone to do a forensic recovery. Even with that, they wouldn't be added to your existing SMS messages. :)
 
Ok thanks! I guess I'll just have to decide whether I want my recent texts or my older ones, Lol. ;)

Regarding the text message viewing password, I just thought that would be cool since I often will let people check out my iPhone but I'd rather them not be able to check out my texts.

I had the iPhone in my hand while picking something up and that's how they got deleted...dumb! :rolleyes:
 
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