Recover Lost Messages on iPhone after iOS 12.1 Update

iOS 12.1 Deleted Text Messages on iPhone

By Selena KomezUpdated on November 13, 2018

[Summary]: The article describes the method to recover lost text messages when they turn inaccessible and missing after iOS 12.1 update by using iPhone Data Recovery software.

iPhone Texts Disappeared after iOS 12.1 Update? Most iOS updates also bring with them a slew of newly discovered bugs including iPhone unresponsive, iPhone black screen, and other problems including the unfortunate and potentially devastating iPhone text messages disappeared. If you noticed that some or all messages disappeared from iPhone after an iOS update or other circumstances like accidentally deletion, formatting, factory restore, jailbroke failed, iPhone stuck or broken, but the storage still shows a large usage for Messages, it indicates that missing messages probably are not really gone and still exist on your iPhone. You enable to stop using your iDevice and use a data recovery software to extract lost text messages from iPhone directly or from iTunes/iCloud backup without erasing your original iPhone files.

Here I will recommend you a worthy iPhone data recovery software. Restoring iPhone will delete all existing contents on iPhone. An alternative way is using third-party tools like iPhone Data Recovery. It is specifically designed to help you recover lost data without affecting your device in any way. It means that you can easily restore lost messages on iPhone when backup is available, even no backup is available. iPhone text messages lost due to an iOS 12.1 update can be retrieved within a few clicks.

Key Features:

Recover up to 22 type of data including messages, contacts, photos, videos, notes, WeChat data, WhatsApp chat and more.
3 recovery modes available: directly recover from the device, from an iTunes Backup of an iCloud backup.
Recover easily in just 3 steps: Connect > Scan > Recover.
Perfectly compatible with iPhone XS/XS Max/XR/X/8/7/6S, iPad, iPod touch and the latest iOS12.1/12.

How to Undelete Texts on iPhone after iOS 12.1 Update

The “Smart Recovery”function of program provide different features to choose-to get back lost data on device,which will make the data recovery efficiently.You could select this recovery mode when you lost data from device under the unknown circumstances.

smart iphone data recovery

Step 1.Run iPhone Data Recovery on Computer
Launch iPhone Data Recovery in the first step,connect your iPhone to computer and select the recovery mode “Recover from iOS Device“.

connect iphone with computer

Step 2.Scan your iPhone for Lost iMessages, Text Messages
Started to scan your iPhone for lost messages after iOS 12.1 update.To recover SMS on iPhone,you should click”Message“.If you also wanna recover other data simultaneously,you can click more file types to scan,such as “Contacts”,”Call History”.

select file to scan

Click “Next” to search for your lost data,then the program will start to scan your device automatically for lost data.

scan iphone and search lost data

Step 3.Restore Text Messages from iPhone in iOS 12.1 Directly
When the scanning is finished,you can preview all data on your iPhone and then choose the text messages you want,just simply clicking “Recover” button.

recover lost sms directly from iphone