Hi. I had a lot of texts from a friend of mine who passed away in 2020. Up until a few months ago, his messages were available in iMessage on my iPhone. Then one day last fall, they all disappeared. Does anyone know why? My iMessage is set to keep texts forever. Again, this is the only person's iMessages that are gone.
At first I thought something happened when I upgraded my iPhone 7 to the iPhone 13 last fall. But, if I go back to my iPhone 7, all the iMessages are there for everyone else except this one person, too. So it's a problem across the iMessage service, not the device. I don't know exactly when they disappeared but I noticed the problem about a month ago...and I'm sure they were on the iPhone 13.
I do not recall if my friend had an iPhone or not. My current guess is that his wife must have disabled the phone service recently...but why would that affect what messages I've already received? It doesn't seem like it should.
I've googled around and cannot find the answer to this. Has anyone seen this before?
Thanks.
At first I thought something happened when I upgraded my iPhone 7 to the iPhone 13 last fall. But, if I go back to my iPhone 7, all the iMessages are there for everyone else except this one person, too. So it's a problem across the iMessage service, not the device. I don't know exactly when they disappeared but I noticed the problem about a month ago...and I'm sure they were on the iPhone 13.
I do not recall if my friend had an iPhone or not. My current guess is that his wife must have disabled the phone service recently...but why would that affect what messages I've already received? It doesn't seem like it should.
I've googled around and cannot find the answer to this. Has anyone seen this before?
Thanks.