Wondering how to recover deleted text messages on iphone? To restore lost text messages on iPhone, you should open Messages application, scroll through the Recently Deleted folder and retrieve the messages. In case the messages are old, a past iCloud or computer backup would have the messages. No backup can also be used, recovery software can also assist in this case, deleted data can remain in the storage of the iPhone until it gets overwritten, therefore, the faster the action is performed the higher the likelihood of recovery.