
The primary reason for this is, restoring a device to a backup requires a factory reset which could result in data loss. Even if you do have a backup of the lost text messages, there are certain situations where restoring the device to that backup is not viable. But, if you lose text messages that weren’t included in a backup, you can be in a particularly not good place. This is why losing some of the text messages on your device can be a difficult situation to be in.īackups are essential and they do help. And text messages can contain a lot of important information both in their messages and the attachments they carry.


As the most common form of communication for most iPhone users, text messages represent a large volume of the data on iPhones.
