How to Restore Only Messages from iTunes Backup
You can lose the messages on your iPhone for a variety of reasons. Apart from the events of iOS upgrade failure, the most common cause is accidental deletion. Because data loss can happen unexpected, backup plans like iTunes and iCloud are essential to the safety of your data. If you have a recent iTunes backup sitting around, then all you have to do is to restore your iPhone with the backup. The trade-off with restoring an iTunes backup is that you have to erase all the current data and settings on the iOS device while restoring the backup. This could be a problem for people who have other important data on their phone and not willing to erase them as the recovery cost. Are there alternatives that could allow people to only restore messages from iTunes backups without erasing other data? In this article we are going to provide you with this alternative, offering you a way to extract your messages from iTunes backup without losing any of your current data.
How to Extract Messages from an iTunes Backup
In order to retrieve messages from your iTunes backup, you need a tool that makes it easy to gain access to the iTunes backup and retrieve the messages you need. The best tool to help you do that is H Data iPhone Data Recovery. H Data iPhone Data Recovery allows you to not just extract messages from your iTunes backup but also various other different types of data including photos, notes, videos, contacts and third-party app data like QQ and WeChat. With H Data iPhone Data Recovery, you can easily preview and extract individual messages. It gives you the ability to selectively restore the messages on your iTunes backup file.
You can also use it to restore messages directly from an iOS device if you have no backups available.
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Restore Only Messages from iTunes Backup with H Data iPhone Data Recovery
Step 1: Free download and install the program to your computer.
Step 2: Launch the program and choose View and Restore Files from iTunes Backups. Choose an iTunes backup file and click SCAN.
Step 3: When the scanning process is complete, Choose Messages on the left panel, you will find all your messages in the iTunes backup listed on the right. You can browse and select the ones you want to recover and then click Export Selected Records to save them to your computer. You can check the Hide Existed box to only view the deleted messages.
As you can see the process is straightforward and more importantly, there is no data loss during the recovery process. You can even scan the iOS device directly for any deleted data if you have no backups at hand. You just need to choose the Scan iPhone for deleted files in the first step as your recovery mode and follow the rest of the steps.