How to Retrieve Text Messages from iCloud without Restoring

“I am missing an old text message from november 2012 to now from a specific person,I alway back up night wiht Icloud. I just need to know how can I retrieve those conversation. Thanks.”

Just like the Apple user reported , you probably keep some precious text messages from other people on your iPhone iPad for a long time. Unluckily, someday you just lost them for some reasons and expected to get them back. But how to? If you have backed up your text conversations to iCloud, you can restore from iCloud to retrieve them. However, iCloud won’t allow you to recover only text messages and will erase all your current iOS data. Therefore, to help you retrieve deleted/missing text messages from iCloud backup without any data loss, we introduce you iOS Data Recovery, one reliable iCloud backup extracting tool.

By safely downloading backups of your iDevices from iCloud server, this tool enables you to clearly view backup details and selectively retrieve only text messages to your iPhone iPad or computer. Besides texts, it can also recover pictures in message attachments. And now, you can get this tool installed on your PC/Mac and begin your recovery progress by following the below steps.

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How to retrieve text messages from iCloud backup files

Step 1. Run this software, connect your iPhone to computer with data cable and choose “Recover from iCloud”.

Retrieve text messages from iCloud

Step 2. Click the forward icon, enter your Apple ID and pass code to sign in iCloud account.

Enter Apple ID and password to log into iCloud account

Step 3. After scan, a list of iCloud backups is available. You can pick up one backup you want and click Download button. It will take you some time to download that backup. After the downloading ends, click “Next” to continue.

Pick up one iCloud backup you need

Step 4. On the left panel, choose “Messages” or “Message Attachments” to check your texts or pictures in attachments, with the details of date and specific conversations, pick up your desired parts and export them to iPhone or computer by clicking the bottom right corner.

Retrieve text messages from iCloud without resetting iPhone

As you can see on the screenshots, this tool is competent for retrieving text messages and other iOS data like videos, photos, contacts and so on from iCloud backup. Besides, it can also recover text conversations from iTunes backup without performing a whole restore. So why not grab it now and have a free try?