How to Restore Only Messages from Backup to New iPhone 8

After you purchase a new iPhone 8 this September, you can choose to set it up as a new iPhone, or restore from iTunes/iCloud backup. If your previous backup contains lots of valuable messages, you may want to restore from backup to get old iPhone messages to your new iPhone 8. However, it’s important to note that you have to restore the whole backup contents instead of single data type, in such case, your iPhone storage will be quickly taken up by some useless backup items. Therefore, in this post, we talk about how to restore only messages from backup with an iPhone backup extractor – iOS Data Reovery software. Now, you can follow the below steps to start the process.

Restore Only Messages from Backup to New iPhone 8 via iOS Data Recovery

Step 1. Download and install this app on your PC/Mac.

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Step 2. Run this app, connect you iPhone to computer with USB cable, choose “Recover from iTunes Backup”. Then, click forward icon to scan your backup.

How to restore only messages from backup to new iPhone 8

Step 3. After scan, a list of iTunes backups is available. You can pick up a related one and click right arrow to continue.

Choose one backup you want

Step 4. After analyzing, on the left side, you can click “Messages” to see texts details, pick up your needed ones, and save them directly to your new iPhone.

How to restore only messages from backup to new iPhone 8

With this software, you can also restore other single data type like contacts, photos, notes and so on from old iTunes/iCloud backup to your new iPhone. So why not download it now and have free try?