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DustyShaw

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Original poster
Sep 26, 2018
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At lease one important text message thread has disappeared from my Messages app on iPhone 11 / iOS 16.5.1

I had the foresight to take a screenshot of one message, but not the entire thread.

I wouldn't have deleted this thread but I checked my Recently Deleted messages just to be 1000% sure and it's not there.

This thread was much less than 30 days old.

iPhone storage is nowhere near full.
iCloud storage is nowhere near full.

The sender is a very devious big name insurance company (I do realize the devious part is redundant). I mention this because I'm wondering if it's possible for a powerful entity to set their sent text messages to expire or auto-delete somehow.

Any ideas how I could retrieve this thread, or how it got deleted?
 
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