03-14-2023 12:24 PM
I ported over to Smarty from Virgin yesterday but I’ve lost my text messages . Is there an easy way to get them back?
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03-14-2023 12:38 PM - edited 03-14-2023 12:38 PM
The text messages should be on your phone @BarryBe_1914166.
Did you change your mobile phone when you started using your SMARTY SIM @BarryBe_1914166?
03-14-2023 01:16 PM
Well would you believe it, just switching my old phone on has automatically made the texts appear on the new phone. I guess it somehow updated the new phone from the iCloud.
Thanks Chalkychap 👍
03-14-2023 12:38 PM - edited 03-14-2023 12:38 PM
The text messages should be on your phone @BarryBe_1914166.
Did you change your mobile phone when you started using your SMARTY SIM @BarryBe_1914166?
03-14-2023 01:03 PM
Hi Chalkychap,
I actually changed my iPhone a week ago so I guess I may of lost them then without noticing.
I just switched the old iPhone on and sure enough they’re still there.
Do you know if there’s an easy way to get them from the old phone to the new one?
03-14-2023 01:16 PM
Well would you believe it, just switching my old phone on has automatically made the texts appear on the new phone. I guess it somehow updated the new phone from the iCloud.
Thanks Chalkychap 👍
03-14-2023 01:18 PM
I believe you can set the 'old' iPhone to save texts in iCloud, from the "Apple ID" section in the Settings. Under "APPS USING ICLOUD", you can backup Messages app texts. You'll need a Wi-Fi connection for the 'old' iPhone to do this.
Once your texts are in iCloud, you should able to get them on your 'new' iPhone by changing the Settings on your 'new' phone.
Alternatively, make sure you have got the same version of iOS on your 'old' and 'new' iPhones, then:
03-15-2023 02:04 PM
When you set up a new iPhone (and already have an old one), the option comes up to copy over all from the old phone to the new one - think it may use the Apple airDrop system to move it across.
Having done this for myself and for family, it works very well indeed. One or two apps sometimes need to be loaded up and 'retrained', but it saves a whole heap of work.