iphone owners - HELP

[Mook]

So me and my mom came to visit my sister today. On the way down, all of her messages within imessage were there. We got to my sisters house, and suddenly the message strings to me, my sister, my aunt and maybe a few more had vanished. But there are still messages there to random people going all the way back to 2017.

I've hard reset. Ive updated iOS. Ive used a recovery tool and found deleted messages but none were us. Ive logged out and back in. Ive done everything the internet said. Imessages was never set to be backed up to icloud....so thats a dead end. Her phone is set to keep messages forever....so wtf?

The only thing I can think to try is to try her ipad once we get back home and see if they show up there.

Anyone have any advice? My mom is pretty upset.

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[Bru]

That’s really odd. Unfortunately don’t have any possible solutions.

 

[Stink Star]

the only times ive ever seen this is when people purposely don’t setup cloud backup. Personally I’ve never had any data loss so I couldn’t tell you how it happens. But I feel like people always get it back somehow

 

[Mook]

I'm somewhat hopeful if I can get messages to work on the iPad, maybe it will force them.

Because they don't show up as deleted on the recovery program.. And it's literally just messages to / from family. Makes no sense.

 

[1quick]

My iPad only receives I messages not sure if that’s a setting or if that’s all it gets

 

[Mook]

Got home....tried everything. Sync'd with icloud (also turned on backups)...messed with the ipad, messed with more phone settings....had a glimmer of hope when messages said "downloading from icloud" but nothing happened. I think she was mostly upset b/c there were a few texts saved from my dad.

The one take away from today, after fucking with iOS all day...I will never buy an iphone, ever. Its great that it works so well for so many, but I fucking hate it. So theres that.

 

[Shawn1112]

Gotta love Apple

 

[10sec]

Sorry for the misfortune man, hopefully there's something that could happen in the future to get those messages back.

 

[Mook]

It is what it is. Maybe they'll magically reappear. I bumped her icloud storage up as it was super low...some folks on reddit says that will bring them back.

The important thing is I started backing up her photos years ago so at least she'll never lose those.

 

[GLADIATOR]

Since I have switched jobs several times in the past four years, LOL, when I delete my company email, I lose contacts and messages similar to what you mentioned. I would lose like my daughters info.

Create a new text using your dad’s actual numerical phone number, the old messages might come up.

 

[ChrisRac]

Since I have switched jobs several times in the past four years, LOL, when I delete my company email, I lose contacts and messages similar to what you mentioned. I would lose like my daughters info.

I fucking hate when that happens.