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Recovery of messages

I deleted messages last week, I tried to recover them and found that only 163 were available for restoring. Where did the rest of them go and how can I recover them? Please not that my iPhone wasn’t backed up.

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idah83 wrote:
I deleted messages last week, I tried to recover them and found that only 163 were available for restoring. Where did the rest of them go and how can I recover them? Please not that my iPhone wasn’t backed up.

You have 30 days to recover message from deleted folders, and no backup no recovery.

Recovering deleted texts and iMessages - Apple Community