How to Check and View iPhone Text Messages on Computer

It is common to send text messages between two phones, no matter you are using iPhone, Android, Nokia or other phones. Have you ever face the situation like these: Stored a lot of text messages but inconvenient to view on your phone and want to view them on your computer? Want to back up important iPhone text messages to your computer to prevent data loss?  Accidentally delete some useful text messages from your iPhone and want to restore them in a simple way？Read on this article and you will find the solution.

With the help of iPhone Data Recovery software, you are able to check iPhone text messages and other files on computer. What’s more, it support you recover deleted text messages from iPhone and you can check and restore the deleted text messages on computer, as well as other data like photos, videos, notes, contacts and more. As a great iPhone assistant, iPhone Data Recovery can transfer and recover your iPhone data from both the iPhone device and backup file. So you are able to extract the existing messages and deleted messages from iPhone with ease.

Now, read on the steps to learn how to check iPhone text messages on computer.

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How to Check and View iPhone Text Messages on PC Directly

Step 1. Link your iPhone to computer and run the iPhone data recovery program, then click "Trust" on your iPhone, switch to "Recover from iOS Device", click "Start Scan" button to begain the process.

Step 2. After finish the scan, you can click "Massages" or "Massage Attachment" on the left panel of the software and view the iPhone text messages in detail on the right side of the software. You can click "Only display the deleted item(s)" button to only show the deleted texts.

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How to Check and View iPhone Text Messages from iTunes Backup

As we know, using iTunes, we can’t read the sms directly, because the backup file is unreadable, so we need to use a iPhone data recovery tool to extract iTunes backup and check texts.

Step 1. Run the iPhone data recovery software and switch to "Recover from iTunes Backup" mode, you will see all iTunes backup display in the interface, choose the one you need and tap "Start Scan" to extract it.

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Step 2. When the process is completed, you can choose "Massages" or "Massage Attachment" data type and check the text messages in detail on the right side of the software. If you need, you can save them to computer for use.

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How to Check and View iPhone Text Messages from iCloud Backup

Step 1. Run the iPhone data recovery software and go to "Recover from iCloud backup", then use the Apple ID and password to login iCloud account.

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Step 2. Now the software will search all iCloud backup and show them in the scan result, choose one you need to click "Download" button to get it to computer, then click the same button to start extract backup.

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Step 3. When the software finish the extract, you can tap "Massages" or "Massage Attachment" data type to view the detail information of the text messages.

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