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old text messages on my iphone

I have my text messages set to keep forever but i have found that I only have text messages from only 3 years ago, It appears any texts I have (had) before that are gone

Storage availability is not an issue, i've had this phone almost 2 years but have had everything and backed up icloud for messages is turned on, but don't know what else to do

Posted on Apr 29, 2022 12:45 AM

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Posted on Apr 29, 2022 2:38 AM

You likely erased the messages at some point. Maybe on a different device that synced your messages.

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old text messages on my iphone

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