How to retrieve deleted texts from iPhone?

I am trying to retrieve deleted texts from one year ago.  I hired someone who used five different programs, but to no avail.  
There are forensic companies, but am wondering if they are doing something magical that would retrieve the texts and make it worth spending a lot of money?

Thanks


Can you restore from a backup of a year ago? I delete my previous backups because they take up so much room but I always keep the last two. It’s a Hail Mary since I’m not sure if texts are stored on the cloud or SIM card. 


If you have a cloud based email system or use a program like one drive that automatically backs everything up, your emails may still be alive and well in cyberspace even if they are no longer resident on your phone. 


The only place* you're going to be able to extract messages that will be any different from what is currently in your phone would from would be a backup of your phone. That backup could be on your computer or in iCloud. Messages are not archived anywhere when you delete them. There is no trash/recycle bin holding place. There's no way to directly access the storage on your phone to see if there are any traces that could be undeleted.

So it's likely that whatever has been done is all that can be done. There's a chance that maybe if you colluded with Russians to steal an election the government might be able to get your iMessages from Apple (more likely to have stuff from a week ago than a year though) or read the storage on your phone directly (it's not known that they can do this, so if they can do it, they haven't done it even in some high profile cases).

(*Well, life isn't quite this simple, if you have iMessage set up on multiple devices and/or a computer those messages could have ended up on those devices and/or computer, so you'd have to check backups for any devices that could have had it. But you'd probably have done that already if that was the case.)


do you need the content of the texts or would number to/from, duration and date, time be enough? You can pull all the details expect the content of the text itself from your cell providers records. 


Sadly need the content of the texts.


If only we could ask the NSA for our data....



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