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Lost text messages

since changing to I phone 12 it has got rid of all my text messages more than a year old. I have kept so many messages from loved ones no longer here. I have ticked keep messages forever.

how can I recover then. I assumed that if you transfer from old I phone to new that it would keep messages.

also any idea how to find deleted texts.

I don’t have I cloud backup

thanks

iPhone 12, 14

Posted on Jan 5, 2021 1:20 PM

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Posted on Jan 5, 2021 1:35 PM

Rainbows222 wrote:

since changing to I phone 12 it has got rid of all my text messages more than a year old. I have kept so many messages from loved ones no longer here. I have ticked keep messages forever.
how can I recover then. I assumed that if you transfer from old I phone to new that it would keep messages.
also any idea how to find deleted texts.
I don’t have I cloud backup
thanks

No backups no recovery.

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Jan 5, 2021 1:35 PM in response to Rainbows222

Rainbows222 wrote:

since changing to I phone 12 it has got rid of all my text messages more than a year old. I have kept so many messages from loved ones no longer here. I have ticked keep messages forever.
how can I recover then. I assumed that if you transfer from old I phone to new that it would keep messages.
also any idea how to find deleted texts.
I don’t have I cloud backup
thanks

No backups no recovery.

Lost text messages

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