

There are instructions on their website but here are a few instructions to do the recovery: Also, it appears that it perhaps converts iMessages to Texts, but still, to get all these back on your phone is great! Also, you do need to have a valid iTunes Backup that includes your messages. One caveat: It will not recover MMS messages/pictures, only text. I highly recommend this program! At the time of this writing, it costs $20USD, but in my mind it is well worth that cost as there is no other way (that I know of) to recover these to your phone (unless you are jailbroken, but this article is not about that). I was able to merge those messages with a few message that were already on the phone since after the restore. I was able to restore over 75,000 SMS messages to the phone. Well, I am pleased to report there is a program that does this, and it actually works! The program is called Backuptrans iPhone SMS Backup & Restore, you can find a link here: I really wanted to get them back on to the iPhone.
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I found a lot of programs out there that would allow me to extract the messages and download them to my computer, but this wasn’t all that helpful.

So, this article will probably help you if you are in a situation similar to what I was in: messages and other data were missing from iPhone after iTunes restore. This was obviously highly frustrating! I have no idea why the iTunes Restore missed these things, and Apple support was no help. I recently had a situation where I did an iTunes restore to an iPhone 5 (and iOS 7.1), and for some reason it did not restore all the personal data such as message history, call logs, photos, etc.
