How to Retrieve Deleted Text Messages from iPhone without iTunes

This article is going to show you an effective and secure way for you to retrieve deleted text messages from iPhone without iTunes backup.

To get backup your lost messages from iPhone without backup file, you need the help with an iPhone messages recovery tool: iOS Data Recovery tool. This data recovery software currently supports data recovery from iPhone 5S/5/4S/4/3GS, all iPads and iPod touch 4G/5G.

Download a trial version of iOS Data Recovery program as below.

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Step 1. Run the program and connect iPhone 

Connect your iPhone to your computer and run the iPhone Data Recovery program, a start interface will be showed you as below. And then you just need to choose the recovery mode.

Step 2: Select Recover from iOS device

At this time you will see three recover modes as follow. This part we choose "Recover from iOS Device".

Step 3: Scan Your iPhone by Entering Device Scanning Mode

Here you can follow instructions on the program's Window to enter your device system, so that the program can be able to scan your device directly.

1. Hold your iPhone and click "Start" in the pop-up window.
2. Hold both "Power" and "Home" buttons at the same time for 10 seconds.
3. After 10 seconds, release the "Power" button but still pressing the "Home" button. Release "Home" button after another 15 seconds. Then you can successfully entered DFU mode.

You can now click the "Start Scan" button to begin scanning your iPhone after successfully get into your device scanning mode.

Then the app will automatically scan your device for lost files, just as you can see from the window below.

Step 4: Selectively Recover lost text messages from iPhone 

You will see all the found data will be list in categories after the scanning, including messages, Photos, Contacts, Notes, Camera Roll and more.
Click Messages category to view details of the found SMS. Mark the data you want to restore and click "Recover" to save them on your computer.

Note: Both the lost/deleted data and the existed data will all be listed by iOS Data Recovery. You can click "Only display the deleted items" on the top to view the lost files.

If you want to recover your iPhone messages from iTunes backup, you can read:
How to Retrieve Deleted Text Messages iPhone

If you want to recover your lost messages from Android, follow the steps of this guide: How to Recover Deleted Messages from Samsung